Problems using pilgrim

[C. Scott Ananian]

2008/8/30 Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger at member.fsf.org>:
> Hi
>
> I am a member of olpc-ch which is promoting OLPC in Switzerland.
> See also http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Ngiger. As I had
> to customize manually 10 OLPCs to use German/Switzerland as language
> for a presentation of OLPC to more than 100 children in Switzerland
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-ch/2008-August/000153.html
>
> I tried to find a better solution, especially that I would like to be able to
> update a bunch of OLPC to customized bundle of activities.
>
> Therefore I tried to follow the instructions given in
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Pilgrim and in
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_custom_images
> After cloning the git repo to /home/src/olpc/pilgrim and patching the sources
> as in the attached diff. I executed the following command in
> /home/src/olpc/pilgrim
> sudo ./pilgrim-autobuild --config-dir . --stream olpc-development --dest-dir .
>
> I got the following errors;
>>  * Building stream from
>> /home/src/olpc/pilgrim/./streams.d/olpc-development.stream git commit hash
>> for this build
>> commit 7b261d7289d1b2cebbd4d809e1c948dce2773c3b
>> .: 1: olpc-branch.conf: not found
>>  * Product name is "XO-1 Operating System" (xo-1)
>>  * Vendor is "One Laptop Per Child Association, Inc." (olpc)
>>  * Error: PILGRIM_STREAM_NAME not set in stream definition file
> I am using a bash shell version 3.2.39 on a Debian testing/unstable x86 box.
>
> Any help is appreciated as I am a little confused, about the meaning of  the
> variables in streams.d/olpc-branch.conf. (I  volunteer to improve the
> wiki page on  laptop.org based on the answer.)

You should probably be using the 'master' branch in git, not the
joyride one.  The joyride branch has customizations specific to how we
do our autobuilding, which seems to be what is confusing you.
 --scott

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