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

Vasant Hegde hegdevasant at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jan 12 19:35:01 AEDT 2016


On 01/11/2016 03:25 PM, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> 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 :) 

I guessed it :-)

> 
> 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.

Yep. Thanks for the clarification.

-Vasant



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