This application is intended to create Bitmask standalone bundles. This should eventually become the main tool in order to create reproducible builds.

• Two virtual machines:
  • Debian 7.1 32bits - for the 32bits bundle
  • Debian 7.1 64bits - for the 64bits bundle
• two scripts in this repository,
• an internet connection,
• approximately 1.3Gb of disk space,
• (optional) configure sudo for your non-root user,
• patience.

The script uses sudo which is installed on most Debian systems, but you need to configure your non-root user to be able to use sudo.

Edit the /etc/sudoers file and add this line at the bottom: leap ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

HEADS UP: That line allows the user 'leap' to use sudo without being asked for a password, that makes the script easier to use but it would be a security problem. If you use this script in a VM and only for bundling purposes then it shouldn't be a problem.

You need to copy the scripts createbundle.sh and copy-binaries.sh to a VM and run ./createbundle.sh, after that it should be all automagically processed. As an input for the createbundle.sh script you need to have a bitmask.json file in the same folder, there is an example file on this repo, you can use it as a template. There is a json file named bitmask-nightly.json that is meant to be used to create a bundle combining all the develop branches.

The resulting bundle will be saved in: /home/leap/bitmask.bundle/bundle.output/ under some name like Bitmask-linux64-2014-09-24-9b3b7f6f.tar.bz2 in case of bundling a nightly release, or Bitmask-linux64-0.7.0.tar.bz2 in case of a normal release.

After the bundling process finishes it creates a file named reuse-binaries.lock that if you don't delete it, the bundler will reuse the compiled libraries and binaries (like openvpn and PySide) saving a lot of time the next time that a bundler is executed.