FWIW, here's a simple little start-up script to get a nice looking tmux session with everything running.

#!/bin/sh

config_dir="$(readlink -f "$(dirname "$0")")" openbsc_config="$config_dir/open-bsc.cfg" osmobts_config="$config_dir/osmo-bts.cfg" hlr_db="$config_dir/hlr.sqlite3" window_title="GSM"

tmux new-session -s "$window_title" -n close-me -d

tmux new-window -n OpenBSC -t "$window_title" tmux send-keys -t OpenBSC "osmo-nitb -c '$openbsc_config' -l '$hlr_db' \ -P -C --debug=DRLL:DCC:DMM:DRR:DRSL:DNM" Enter

tmux new-window -n OsmoBTS -t "$window_title" tmux send-keys "osmobts-trx -c '$osmobts_config'" Enter

tmux new-window -n OsmoTRX -t "$window_title" tmux send-keys "osmo-trx" Enter

tmux new-window -n BSC-Control -t "$window_title" tmux send-keys -t BSC-Control "telnet localhost 4242" enter

tmux new-window -n BTS-Control -t "$window_title" tmux send-keys -t BTS-Control "telnet localhost 4241" enter

tmux set-option -t "$window_title" status on tmux kill-window -t close-me tmux select-window -t OpenBSC tmux attach -t "$window_title"

Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:

Gentoo Linux now supports Network from Scratch in 5 easy steps.

Looks like you're off to a good start with this.

using jolly's branches for the live ebuilds.

I think the ebuilds needs to use master by default, but I think it would be lovely to be able to opt for a different branch. One easy way would be a USE flag, but that's perhaps not the best way. Ideas?

(ETA on when we can ship master?)

The ETA likely depends on the reason that the branch hasn't been merged. Maybe you can help with that?

2. Make sure your portage tree is up to date, and emerge the right packages:

   $ sudo emerge --sync $ sudo emerge openbsc osmobts osmotrx

openbsc should indeed not depend on osmobts but I think osmobts should have a USE flag to make it DEPEND & RDEPEND on osmotrx Thoughts?

3. Download configuration templates:

   $ wget -O ~/.osmocom/open-bsc.cfg http://bpaste.net/raw/236987/ $ wget -O ~/.osmocom/osmo-bts.cfg http://bpaste.net/raw/237000/

Please add config examples in files/ and install them into /usr/share/doc/{openbsc,osmobts}-9999/examples/ or so.

$ mkdir ~/.osmocom

What do you think about hooking into emerge --config for copying the installed example configuration files to the user's home?

One snag is that --config is rather for system-wide configuration.

4. Edit configuration templates to work on spectrum you have a license for:

   $ vim ~/.osmocom/*.cfg

5. Start these babies up, in separate shells:

   shell1 $ osmo-nitb -c ~/.osmocom/open-bsc.cfg -l ~/.osmocom/hlr.sqlite3 -P -C --debug=DRLL:DCC:DMM:DRR:DRSL:DNM shell2 $ osmobts-trx -c ~/.osmocom/osmo-bts.cfg shell3 $ osmo-trx

I think the tmux startup file {c,sh}ould also go into files/ along with the example configs. :)

Maybe things in your git repo can go to either osmocom or gentoo repos?

//Peter