Re: [Ltib] Re: Upgrade the kernel version in LTIB

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Arun,

Please follow whatever the initial posting order is (top or bottom).  I
don't really care, but keeping it in one direction makes it easier to
follow later.

If you want to release a modified variant of LTIB as an ISO, you have 2
options:

1/ If everything can be made public, then your best bet is to use the
Savannah CVS code base and get your new (or updated) spec files commited
to CVS and also have your patches/sources uploaded to the bitshrine.org.
Once you have this you can do: ./ltib -m release and release using HEAD
as the tag.  I must admit I've never tried this from Savannah, but it
ought to work.

2/ If you don't want to expose your changes publicly (but you must still
meet your license commitments) then you need to create a MANIFEST file.
There's as script in LTIB bin/cvsmanifest that helps make this.  This
must then be manually pruned (annotated) to add/removed any files from
the list that you want/don't want in your release.  From there you
run: ./ltib -m release and use the tag localdir

For more details, take a look at the module bin/Ltibrelease.pm

Regards, Stuart

On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 11:06 +0530, arun c wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Stuart Hughes <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Vijay,
> >
> > Some details of how to update packages are outlined here:
> > http://www.bitshrine.org/autodocs/LtibFaq.html#ref_87
> >
> > Basically you need to copy an existing kernel-xxx.spec.in file to a new
> > name and then update as appropriate.  The source for the kernel should
> > be copied locally to /opt/{ltib,freescale}/pkgs (depending on whether
> > from Freescale or bitshrine).  You can then do
> >
> > $./ltib -p kernel-xxx.spec -m {prep,scbuild,scdeploy}
> >
> > to configure remember -c with scbuild.
> >
> > Once that's all working, edit your platforms
> > config/platform/_target_/main.lkc and add in your new spec file name to
> > the choice list for the kernel.
> >
> > Once you're taken a look at the link and tried the steps, let me know if
> > it's still unclear.
> >
> > Regards, Stuart
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 17:29 +0530, Vijay Nikam wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> I would like to upgrade the Linux kerenl verion in LTIB ... Currently
> >> I have 2.6.20 and would like to upgrade it to 2.6.23 ... I have
> >> downloaded the kernel source ...
> >>
> >> I would like to know ... where to places the Source and which file I
> >> should edit to get the option enable for new kernel version ... or any
> >> how to for reference ...???
> >>
> >> Kindly please acknowledge ... thank you ...
> >>
> >> Kind Regards,
> >> Vijay Nikam
> >
> >
> >
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> Hi all,
> 
> I want to ask one more question based on this.
> 
> I have understood how to add a new kernel, but if I want to
> deliver this to a customer what are the steps to follow?
> 
> Making it more clear, I got the LTIB from a freescale ISO.
> I will be making source level changes to u-boot and kernel
> for a custom board based on M5485EVB, and I want to deliver
> this to a customer in the same form(LTIB ISO).
> 
> It will be easy for my customer to build and deploy using standard ltib
> commands without having to dig in detail about u-boot
> and kernel building process. How to achieve this?
> 
> Regards,
> Arun C