Re: [Xenomai] Xenomai-3 creating debian packages

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 02:27:57PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 08:16:40PM +0100, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> > Then I can tell you, using one I-pipe tree and one Xenomai tree for
> > multiple architectures has been possible for years, this is how I
> > develop on Xenomai.
> 
> Well the patches for arm and patches for powerpc had a merge conflict
> when applying the patch in init/Kconfig where both want to add 1 line
> for source "arch/<current arch>/xenomai/Kconfig"
> 
> Everything else applies great (using the patches generated from the
> xenomai tree with one patch for arm, one for powerpc and one for common).

When working with the I-pipe git, there is just one tree with all
the architecture changes in it. So, no need to apply patches. The
trick is to not run prepare-kernel on that tree, but on another tree
obtained with "lndir".

As for --split option of scripts/ipipe/genpatches.sh to generate a
separate the "noarch" patch, it is kind of obsolete now, since it
was made to help porting the I-pipe from one kernel to the next,
when we reapplied the I-pipe patch on top of the kernel to do that.
Since today we have adopted a "merge" workflow (which by the way
makes things much harder for an I-pipe maintainer), we no longer
need that option.

-- 
					    Gilles.