Re: [Ltib] Setting new package options and dependencies

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Franz,

The best thing to do is to submit a patch showing your changes,
including the new .spec file, that way I can comment more intelligently,
including the pkg_map/packages.lkc issue (does your package not show up
if you run ./ltib -m config).

Also, you would not be on the hook to maintain this for all
architectures.  If there's a chance that this package could be
used/ported to other platforms, then the .spec file should be made with
that in mind (e.g. don't hardwire ARCH=arm, use the generic way).  To
avoid problems before this happens, you can put conditions into the
.spec file (my preference), such as:


case "$PLATFORM" in
    imx31ads)
        SOCKDRV=mx31ads-pcmcia
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Error platform not supported"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac

See qtopia,spec/pcmciautils.spec for examples.

So far as putting in a particular grouping, do a find config | grep
'something_in_this_group' and this should reveal the
packages.lkc/pkg_map files that controls this.  The likely places are:
config/userspace/* and config/platform/*.  However, I would if possible
try to keep common.  Again, please send a complete patch so I can 'see'
what the situation is.

Regards, Stuart

Franz TRIERWEILER wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> My port of webcam-tools is finished. It includes slight modifications to
> support ARM specific data alignment. I turned it into a rpm package and
> the whole rpm process works fine:
> - prep
> - scbuild
> - scinstall
> - scdeploy
> 
> Since it is an ARM specific package (I cannot maintain it for several
> platforms since I only own i.MX25 Freescale 3-stack boards), I decided
> this would really become an ARM-specific package. I do not have the
> pretention of maintining it for all platforms supported by LTIB.
> 
> I have several questions regarding how to integrate it into LTIB.
> 
> Q1: I tried to get it included into my LTIB system to have it as a
> selectable package through the user interface. I modified packages.lkc
> as explained in the LTIB faq and added an entry in pkg_map. No way, I
> cannot see it it in the LTIB interface. Is there something I missed ?
> 
> Q2: I would like to specify that this package depends on:
> - ARM arch
> - V4Linux
> - UVC
> - udev
> 
> should be something like "depends xxxx & depends yyyy & depends zzzzz"
> but I am not sure.
> 
> In my LTIB, there is an iMX specific set of packages which are specific
> to the 3-stack evalbord. I think I should make my package appear in this
> group since it is ARM specific and tested only on iMX Freescale board.
> 
> How can I set this ?
> 
> Regards,
> Franz
> 
> 
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