[Skiboot] [RFC PATCH] add a skiboot rpm spec file

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Jan 7 16:53:05 AEDT 2016


Cédric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com> writes:
> On 01/06/2016 06:50 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> Cédric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com> writes:
>>> This spec file is based on :  
>>>
>>>      https://hegdevasant.fedorapeople.org/opal-prd/v4/opal-prd.spec
>>>
>>> in which a new 'opal-firmware' package was added. It contains a
>>> skiboot.lid and is generated as a noarch package.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg at fr.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> I think that pflash and also, to some extent, the *scom commands
>>> should be part of a package. opal-utils ? 
>>>
>>> This rfc is a way to discuss on what and how we should provide tools
>>> and various blobs to the distros. I do not expect this patch to get
>>> commited. Well, not as is :)
>> 
>> BTW, when you get this going, it'd be great to modify .travis.yml to
>> build packages as part of the travis CI thing.
>
> ah ! that is a challenge for me :) But yes it would be a good thing. 
>
> It is still a bit obscure how the 'make dist' is done to build the 
> tarball. That would be the first thing to understand. 
>
> Then 'dist: trusty' might be an issue. I will check.

Joel has some magic to do things in docker containers, and that could be
how we achieve it without going *too* insane....

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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