I've been pretty much following the steps within the scripts found in https://github.com/ubports/device-builds, and after some code adjustments have been able to build ubp-5.1-allthefixings on my ubuntu 18.04 box.

However, now that I have the device_hammerhead_devel.tar.xz file ready, I am not sure of the next steps... Unfortunately I do not have the ubuntu-device-flash as that package did not exist under 18.04.

Can anyone explain the next steps? Do I fastboot into recovery, copy the xz files and install (similar to lineageOS)? Do I need to use some other tool to flash my nexus5?

So a follow up to this, for others...

After completing all the steps in https://github.com/ubports/device-builds, I then did the steps in https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/ubp-5.1.html

That is, reboot into fastboot and

fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Reboot to validate new kernel

uname -a
lsb_release -a
cat /proc/version

Then fastboot again and do

./replace-android-system system.img

From https://github.com/janimo/phablet-porting-scripts/blob/68734ca07998b8e784397df77d9aca4b968b3815/build/replace-android-system

In my Nexus5, I had to modify the script since I fastboot'ed already...

read -t 10 -n 1 -p "Reboot to recovery (y/n)? " answer
[ -z "$answer" ] && answer="Yes"  # if 'yes' have to be default choice
case ${answer:0:1} in
    y|Y )
        adb reboot recovery;
        wait_for_device;
    ;;
    * )
        echo "Assuming device in recovery mode";
    ;;
esac

Once you reboot into UT, you can validate the updated build properties...

cat /android/system/build.prop

which should match what you built on your machine!

@AppLee said:

Before I could last at most 8h now it's up to 36 hours.
Recently I had some battery leak, but nothing a reboot wouldn't solve or simply waiting.

Wut?! What configuration options do you have? I've tweaked my governor to be conservative, but even then I last less than 10 hours. What apps are you using? As far as I can tell, dekko is my biggest power consumer...

<rant>

I saw this post and immediately bought a used LG G6. Unfortunately it was the LS993 model which can't fastboot. So was totally excited to install and test your port, @Guf ... but won't be able to.

</end of rant>

@Lakotaubp can we not mention the telegram group if it is not open for anyone to join?

@doniks I tried joining, but got kicked out)

@AppLee said:

Before I could last at most 8h now it's up to 36 hours.
Recently I had some battery leak, but nothing a reboot wouldn't solve or simply waiting.

Wut?! What configuration options do you have? I've tweaked my governor to be conservative, but even then I last less than 10 hours. What apps are you using? As far as I can tell, dekko is my biggest power consumer...

@dobey thanks!

@dobey

libertine-container-manager exec -i xenial -c " /bin/bash" 

but apparently, while vim was removed, vim-runtime and vim-common were stragglers...

When I removed those, it finally disappeared!

Anyhow, the question still remains... how does drawer pull from the list of installed packages within libertine? would you have any code pointers for me to look at?

@Lakotaubp Does not show in tweak tool. I really don't want to reinstall (this is my daily driver), so any hints on where to look (including code) and I'll try to resolve it the hard way...

@dobey yep. icon is there. does not start (screen blinks, then goes back to home). Yes, it has the actual vim logo. If you want to reproduce you'd have to go back one OTA, install libertine + vim, then upgrade via release channel. Lol.

Any ideas?

@dobey ok... so what can I do? how do I force the drawer to recognize that vim is no longer installed?

Hey, this might be related to my recent post...

How do I delete an (already deleted) app that is listed on my drawer from libertine, but that refuses to disappear? Can I just manually update/mess with

.local/share/unity-scopes/unconfined/livertine-scope.ubuntu_libertine-scope/.surfacing_cache

?

Thanks @kugiigi but the refresh didn't work, and vim isn't on any of the applications listed on that folder. I did find a reference in

.local/share/unity-scopes/unconfined/livertine-scope.ubuntu_libertine-scope/.surfacing_cache

I guess I'll play around with manually updating that file...