Re: [Ltib] YAFFS2 tool/deployment method

[Peter Barada]

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 16:50 +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> FYI.  It looks like the existing package only builds yaffs tools.  I 
> think the right approach would be to use that package specfile but 
> update it with your new CVS tarball and patches and have it build both 
> yaffs and yaffs2 tools.  Does that sound like a plan?  Can you take a 
> look and let me know if you are able to try this.

I'll take a look and try to wedge my changes into the yaffs tools.  I'll get back to you on what I come up with in a few days...

> Thanks, Stuart
>
> Peter Barada wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 13:43 +0100, Stuart Hughes wrote:
> >> Hi Peter,
> >>
> >> Looking at this a bit further I see that this seems to be a sub-set of 
> >> an existing package (dist/lfs-5.1/yaffs-utils/yaffs-utils.spec)
> >>
> >> Rather than adding a new package would it be better to update this 
> >> package and add your patches, or is there some other factor?
> > 
> > Hmm, that probably the right way to do this.  I'll go back and look.
> > 
> >> Regards, Stuart
> >>
> >> Stuart Hughes wrote:
> >> > Hi Peter,
> >> > 
> >> > Thanks for the patches.  It looks good to me and I'm in the process of 
> >> > integrating this.
> >> > 
> >> > I have some questions:
> >> > 
> >> > * Can you give a me a URL for mkyaffs2image-20090406.tar.bz2 and say how 
> >> > this tarball is created (it looks like a sub-set of a snapshot?)
> > It is a subset of a snapshot from the YAFFS CVS tree.  Instructions to 
> > grabbing the tree can be found at http://www.yaffs.net/node/346  
> > Unfortunately the YAFFS project doesn't produce release tarballs.
> > 
> >> > * So that I get it right when I upload to the GPP, can you confirm that 
> >> > your are the author of patches to mkyaffs2image and that they are 
> >> > licensed under GPL (mkyaffs2image-20090406-01.patch, 
> >> > mkyaffs2image-20090406-02.patch, mkyaffs2image-20090406-03.patch).
> > 
> > Yes, I am and they are releasable under GPL.
> >> > * Can you confirm that you are happy with the directory I intend to 
> >> > place the mkyaffs2image.spec in.  I have it in: 
> >> > dist/lfs-5.1/mkyaffs2image/mkyaffs2image.spec
> > Yes, but moot given above.
> > 
> >> > Regards, Stuart
> >> > 
> >> > Peter Barada wrote:
> >> >> Attached are components containing a new mkyaffs2image tarball, 
> >> >> patches and .spec file that can deal with a device table, and can be 
> >> >> used by LTIB to create a YAFFS2 root filesystem image as a new YAFFS2 
> >> >> deployment method.
> >> >>
> >> >> The following patch to current LTIB CVS /should/ get it running (my 
> >> >> LTIB version is based on version 8.4.1 and hacked up pretty hard so 
> >> >> YMMV):
> >> >>
> >> > [snip]
> >> > 
> >> > 
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