Re: [Xenomai-core] prepare-kernel options

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>]

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Paul wrote:
> 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 

Romain once worked on this. Don't know what happened to his effort, if
something might be reusable or so. I CC'ed him.

> 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.
> 

Great!

Jan


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