cordova-ubuntu should add the click chroot dependency via an exec shell command

[David Barth]

It is complicated to install the cordova build packages.

1. We could exec a shell to do the 'sudo click chroot maint install ... "
2. Once we once the package in the archive, we could just have 1 virtual package with the right dependencies

[Maxim Ermilov (zaspire)]

bad idea

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Maxim: Why do you think this is a bad idea? Which solution would you propose to make the installation for new users easier?

[David Barth (dbarth)]

We discussed the bug last week, and agreed this was worth doing in the end. Maxim is looking into it now.

[XiaoGuo, Liu (liu-xiao-guo)]

Today, I made my first cmdline Cordova app. However, I also got the following error like:

liuxg@liuxg:~/web/test-app/www$ cordova build --device
Error: icon does not exist: /home/liuxg/web/test-app/platforms/ubuntu/www/img/icon.png
    at Object.module.exports.update_manifest (/usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/metadata/ubuntu_parser.js:98:33)
    at Object.module.exports.update_from_config (/usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/metadata/ubuntu_parser.js:59:21)
    at Object.module.exports.update_project (/usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/metadata/ubuntu_parser.js:147:21)
    at /usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/prepare.js:122:27
    at Array.map (native)
    at /usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/prepare.js:65:40
    at _fulfilled (/usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/q/q.js:787:54)
    at self.promiseDispatch.done (/usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/q/q.js:816:30)
    at Promise.promise.promiseDispatch (/usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/q/q.js:749:13)
    at /usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/q/q.js:509:49
liuxg@liuxg:~/web/test-app/www$ cordova build --device
Running command: /home/liuxg/web/test-app/platforms/ubuntu/cordova/build --device
Building Phone Application...
Error: missing armhf chroot
run:
sudo click chroot -a armhf -f ubuntu-sdk-14.10 create
sudo click chroot -a armhf -f ubuntu-sdk-14.10 install cmake libicu-dev:armhf pkg-config qtbase5-dev:armhf qtchooser qtdeclarative5-dev:armhf qtfeedback5-dev:armhf qtlocation5-dev:armhf qtmultimedia5-dev:armhf qtpim5-dev:armhf libqt5sensors5-dev:armhf qtsystems5-dev:armhf
Error: /home/liuxg/web/test-app/platforms/ubuntu/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 1
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/share/cordova-cli/node_modules/cordova-lib/src/cordova/superspawn.js:135:23)
    at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)
liuxg@liuxg:~/web/test-app/www$

Is there anyway to make the life easier for the developers. I think we probably need to get the libraries into the chroots to make it easier.