[Buildroot] Generating Buildroot compatible kernel tarball from Git

[Buildroot] Generating Buildroot compatible kernel tarball from Git

[Anmol Sarma]

I am trying to modify the default configuration for beaglebone to use a
custom tarball instead of a Git tree. I generated a tarball using:

git archive bb | bzip2 > linux-3.8.13.tar.bz2
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[Buildroot] Generating Buildroot compatible kernel tarball from Git

[Anmol Sarma]

I am trying to modify the default configuration for BeagleBone to use a
custom tarball instead of a Git tree. I generated a tarball using:

git archive bb | bzip2 > linux-3.8.13.tar.bz2

and modified the defconfig to use the custom tarball but the build fails at
'linux custom Configuring' stage with:
cp "board/beaglebone/linux-3.8.config"
/home/anmol/Code/buildroot-2013.11/output/build/linux-custom/arch/arm/configs/buildroot_defconfig
cp: cannot create regular file
?/home/anmol/Code/buildroot-2013.11/output/build/linux-custom/arch/arm/configs/buildroot_defconfig?:
No such file or directory

I can manually build the kernel by extracting the tarball. I
tried exporting a tarball from the vanilla kennel tree and Buildroot failed
with the same result. What am I doing wrong here?

P.S. Uploaded custom tarball here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/34wrav0nm24gp27/linux-3.8.13.tar.bz2



On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Anmol Sarma <unmole.in@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am trying to modify the default configuration for beaglebone to use a
> custom tarball instead of a Git tree. I generated a tarball using:
>
> git archive bb | bzip2 > linux-3.8.13.tar.bz2
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> Anmol Sarma
>
>


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[Buildroot] Generating Buildroot compatible kernel tarball from Git

[Yann E. MORIN]

Anmol, All,

On 2014-01-02 16:58 +0530, Anmol Sarma spake thusly:
> I am trying to modify the default configuration for BeagleBone to use a
> custom tarball instead of a Git tree. I generated a tarball using:
> 
> git archive bb | bzip2 > linux-3.8.13.tar.bz2

You forgot the prefix:

    git archive XXXX --prefix=linux/ |bzip2 ....

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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[Buildroot] Generating Buildroot compatible kernel tarball from Git

[Anmol Sarma]

Of course! Thanks a bunch, Yann. That fixed it.


On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>wrote:

> Anmol, All,
>
> On 2014-01-02 16:58 +0530, Anmol Sarma spake thusly:
> > I am trying to modify the default configuration for BeagleBone to use a
> > custom tarball instead of a Git tree. I generated a tarball using:
> >
> > git archive bb | bzip2 > linux-3.8.13.tar.bz2
>
> You forgot the prefix:
>
>     git archive XXXX --prefix=linux/ |bzip2 ....
>
> Regards,
> Yann E. MORIN.
>
> --
>
> .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------.
> |  Yann E. MORIN  | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics'
> conspiracy: |
> | +33 662 376 056 | Software  Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN     |  ___
>     |
> | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------:  X  AGAINST      |  \e/  There is
> no  |
> | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL    |   v
> conspiracy.  |
>
> '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'
>



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