pybombs support for SoapySDR and modules

[guruofquality]

Looking for volunteers :-)

pybombs is a source-based software package manager for linux. A very close equivalent is homebrew on OSX. pybombs could make it easier for some users to install SoapySDR and its many support modules with much less tedium. We do try to maintain debian packaging for ubuntu, but this would be applicable to a much wider linux ecosystem.

TODO

• Read this: http://gnuradio.org/redmine/projects/pybombs/wiki/Contributing
• Clone and add to the recipes repo: https://github.com/gnuradio/recipes
• gr-osmosdr should also depend on soapysdr: https://github.com/gnuradio/recipes/blob/master/gr-osmosdr.lwr

satisfy_deb

One neat thing about pybombs, that seems to be missing in homebrew is that it supports deb packages as a binary alternative when available. So we can use the satisfy_deb: directive given packages in the drivers PPA here: https://launchpad.net/~myriadrf/+archive/ubuntu/drivers

Reference

This is the equivalent recipes for homebrew (called formulas). Homebrew is distributed, although it looks like pybombs is more centralized; but this repo should give an idea of the level of work involved: https://github.com/pothosware/homebrew-pothos There needs to be a similar .lwr file for each soapy*.rb file

[rolandspannagl]

i started to add the packages needed for limesdr: https://github.com/oe3cts/gr-recipes... i'll try to add the other soapy* when i find time...

[guruofquality]

Cool, well I guess this was done, please open future issues in regards to pybombs recipes with the official pybombs repo or whatever the proper channels are.