Jauder Ho - links and things

Dropdear is a SSH client that is about half the size of OpenSSH. This is useful for embedded clients that have limited space. Therefore, it made sense to try to get dropbear working with git to handle the Palm Pre patch repository.

However, there are some challenges. Dropbear does not automatically look inside ~/.ssh for a public key and due to the limitations of GIT_SSH not being able to take additional parameters, we need to make some small changes to get this working.

1. Create a /opt/bin/sssh script that includes the following:

#!/bin/sh
ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa $*

2. Next, export GIT_SSH=/opt/bin/sssh in /etc/profile.d/optware
3. Lastly, modify .git/config’s [master]

[branch "master"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/master

After this, you should be able to do a test pull/clone/push from a repo like Gitorious or Github.

The Palm Pre has been available for about a month and half now and in that time, people have been busy digging under the hood, going as far as to create a whole slew of home brew apps (which at this time number more than what is available in the App Catalog).

In that time, I have been posting quite a bit about my new phone and thought I would put together a summary post of what has been posted so far here and on FriendFeed.

• Palm Pre First Impression and Notes - Bought the Pre on Launch Day (which is something that I never do but I skipped a generation of Treos for this phone). Recorded the purchase experience (smooth!) as well as initial digging around the Pre.
• Explorations inside the Palm Pre - A look inside the OS that powers the Pre after rooting.
• How to generate SSH keys using the Palm Pre - If you want to be able to ssh *from* the Palm Pre to a remote machine.
• Pushing to multiple repos using git - I created a second webOS git repo on github for testing. This is identical to the gitorious repo and you can pull from or fork the github copy if you prefer using github.
• My Palm Pre exchange experience - Unfortunately, the first Pre was “Oreo-ing” badly and started having reset / screen problems.
• Pockets, A TDD/BDD framework for webOS development - Created by Pivotal Labs (makers of the Pre Twitter app, Tweed), they are releasing this to help with development.

With the general release of the Palm Pre SDK yesterday, I expect to see a flood of new apps soon (both home brew and in the App Catalog). If you are interested in playing with this, the best resources I have found so far are the Pre Development Wiki and precentral.net. With these two sites, you can easily get started on hacking your Pre. Enjoy!

PS. if you do get stuck, ask the friendly people on IRC at #webos and #webos-internals at irc.freenode.net.

With the general release of the Palm SDK, people are starting to release useful tools to help with development for the webOS.

Earlier this week, Pivotal Labs (creators of Pockets and Jasmine, a DOM-free Javascript testing framework) had a webcast going over the tools that they have created during the course of developing the four apps that they currently have in the App Catalog: LikeMe, AP News, Mobile by Citysearch, and Tweed.

Since the SDK was just released to the general public today, expect things to be in flux for while although it should stabilize quickly. Pockets is currently only available if you have access to the Pre-Release forums. However, Pivotal has indicated that they will be releasing Pockets soon.

Jasmine, on the other hand, is available right now. Go to the GitHub repository here.

While poking around the Palm Pre, there is now a git repo available on gitorious that you can use then use quilt to manage patches to your rooted Pre.

See http://predev.wikidot.com/applying-patches for additional details.

However, I also wanted to have my own repo to play with, while making additional changes and whatnot to things. This meant that I somehow had to be able to push to multiple repos at the same time. One way is to issue multiple git push commands but after some head scratching and googling, I have the following setup.

My .git/config now looks like this:

[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
[branch "master"]
	remote = origin
	merge = refs/heads/master
[remote "origin"]
	url = git@gitorious.org:webos-internals/modifications.git
	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
[remote "all"]
	url = git@gitorious.org:webos-internals/modifications.git
	url = git@github.com:jauderho/webos-hacks.git

So all I have to do is a “git push all master” to push to both repos.