Re: [RFC] make building working zaurus images easier

[Michael Krelin <hacker@klever.net>]

>>> Michael Krelin schreef:
>>>> I have never looked into all this machinery, but since we have, e.g.
>>>> x11-image-spitz.tar.gz 
> 
> IMAGE_NAME = "${IMAGE_BASENAME}-${MACHINE}-${DATETIME}" :)
> 
>>>> and zImage-spitz.bin symlinks, I'd guess that we 
>>>> can do without these somewhat ugly when unnecessary `ls|sort|uniq|tail` 
>>>> things, can't we?
>>> Won't tar package up the symlinks instead of the real files in that case?
>> Yes, but we can use readlink to work out the real file...
> 
> How about this:
> 
> cd ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}
> mkdir ${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/
> 
> # Get the latest kernel using the zImage-<machine>.bin symlink
> cp `readlink zImage-${MACHINE}.bin` ${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/zImage.bin

hmm.. isn't that equivalent to

cp zImage-${MACHINE}.bin ${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/zImage.bin

? cp surely will dereference symlink unless asked not to.

Love,
H

> 
> if [ "${MACHINE}" = "spitz" ]; then
>     cp gnu-tar ${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/
>     cp ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.tar.gz ${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/hdimage1.tgz
> else
>     cp ${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.jffs2 ${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/initrd.bin
> fi
> 
> # All zaurus machines except collie need updater.sh
> if [ "${MACHINE}" != "collie" ]; then
>     cp updater.sh.${MACHINE} ${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/updater.sh
> fi
> 
> tar czf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit.tgz {IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/
> rm -rf ${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}-installkit/
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