OSSIE Updater

The OSSIE Updater utility is useful for keeping local source versions up to date.

Usage

Check out the utility via subversion from scripts,

$ svn co https://ossie.wireless.vt.edu/repos/ossie/scripts

Move to the directory and run the updater once with no arguments:

$ python OSSIEUpdater.py

This creates the default configuration xml file ossieupdater.cfg.xml which you can edit to match your directory structure. The configuration should be fairly straightforward.

Now you may run the updater on specific modules (framework, components, nodes, etc.). To update the framework, for example, simply run

$ python OSSIEUpdater.py --framework

A list of all options are displayed below

-v, --version	Write UpdateOSSIE version
--initialize	Create default configuration file
-a, --a	All, equivalent to -cdfnopsSw
-f, --framework	OSSIE core framework
-S, --standardinterfaces	Standard Interfaces
-p, --platform	Platform
-s, --sigproc	SigProc?, signal processing library
-d, --domain	Domain
-n, --nodes	Nodes
-c, --components	Components
-w, --waveforms	Waveforms
-o, --owd	OSSIE Waveform Developer

Configuration

The OSSIE Updater tool is configured through the ossieupdater.cfg.xml file. A default file is generated by the tool itself if the file does not exist in the scripts/ directory. To generate the default file, run

$ python OSSIEUpdater.py --initialize

Edit the resulting ossieupdater.cfg.xml file as necessary.

Allowing root access for make install with sudo

Because the OSSIE Updater automates installation, it is useful to allow users to execute make install with root privelages on certain modules. To do so, you will need to edit the sudoers file. Login as root and execute

# /usr/sbin/visudo

Add the following line:

ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/make install

save and quit (:wq). If you made an error, visudo will tell you.