On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:02, Jan Kiszka wrote: <snip> > [Related question from my side:] > > Would you be willing to provide debian package generation rules for > Xenomai? Something that would spit out .deb files when calling, say, > "make deb KERNEL=linux-2.6.x.tar.bz2 CONFIG=my-kernel-config" in a > configured userland build directory? That way we could automatise binary > package generation for kernel, user libs, development headers, and > documentation. And that would allow us to finally distribute them for > generic targets like x86 and x86_64 along with the usual tar files.
To have a Debian rule set is indeed my ultimate goal (but I wouldn't want t tread on anyone's toes if it is already in hand). - I suspect a number of potential users would like to try Xenomai but are put off by kernel compilation... But rather than a `make deb` rule, a small script would be better - Debian's packaging system generates (amongst other things) a source tarball, and to include auto-generated files doesn't feel right.. Calling the `make dist` rule may solve that issue. > I think such a feature (maybe later enhanceable by RPM) would both be > interesting for replicable custom installations as well as for a > reference kernel distribution to provide a Xenomai quick-start. Indeed - Point a potential user to a repository, let them experiment with a (hopefully) working kernel, and when they need/want specific vmlinuz options, they have a reference point to work from. The "Debian way" also greatly simplifies the task of building packages. <snip> > Would this build procedure already help you? > http://www.rts.uni-hannover.de/xenomai/lxr/source/README.INSTALL?a=i386#203 Ah, yes.. It's the same doc in the top level Xenomai tree ;) As Gilles has pointed out, there are already a couple of options in prepare-kernel.sh to aid package generation - If nobody else is working on that area, I'll put a patch together over the next few days and submit it for review. Regards, Paul. _______________________________________________ Xenomai-core mailing list Xenomai-core@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/xenomai-core
