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

Cédric Le Goater clg at fr.ibm.com
Mon Jan 11 20:55:08 AEDT 2016


On 01/11/2016 06:28 AM, Vasant Hegde wrote:
> On 01/08/2016 11:08 AM, Stewart Smith wrote:
>> Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
>>> IIUC we all agree to have 3 separate packages here..
>>>   opal-prd -- binary package contains opal-prd daemon
>>>   opal-firmware - contains skiboot.lid
>>>   opla-utils -- Contains developer utilities like gard, xscom utilities etc.
>>>
>>> Thankfully Fedora folks haven't accepted opal-prd package. If everyone agrees
>>> with above 3 package/naming convention then I would like to propose
>>> changes now.
>>
>> I think that all works.
>>
>> If we were going to package the whole OpenPower firmware with petitboot,
>> we'd name that package openpower-firmware I guess...
>>
> 
> Stewart
> We have to use consistent naming convention while generating multiple binaries
> from source. Either opal-* -OR- openpower-*
> 
> We already have opal-* package in Ubuntu and most likely it will be included in
> fedora very soon. So I think think its better to stick to opal-* names.

I think what Stewart envisioned is a 'bit' larger than just opal anyhow :) 

We would need to make a rpm from a firmware image as generated by :

	https://github.com/open-power/op-build/

and openpower-firmware would be a good prefix for it but this is another 
package clearly.

C.  



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