Re: [ptxdist] ptxdist options help

[Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>]

Hi,

* Erwin Rol <mailinglists@erwinrol.com> [2011-11-03 23:48]:
> 
> could someone explain the idea behind the following ptxdist options ?
> 
>     Build Type (development)
> [ ] use pre-built production release
> [ ] built on top of another platform

Don't know about that options, but I'm also interested in the second two
options.

Hopefully somebody of the ptxdist gurus (Michael? Jürgen?) can comment
if that's correct and answer my remaining questions:

> [ ] create dev packages

This option creates (in addition to the ipk packages that can be
installed on the target and that are used to create the target image)
for each package a PKGNAME_$HASH_$ARCH-dev.tar.gz  (in
platform-$PLATFORM/packages) that contains everything the packages
installs, not only the subset that is selected by the package.mk.
Especially it contains header files for libraries that are not on the
target. So some kind of $package.deb + $package-dev.deb.

This package can be used in this step:

> [ ] use dev packages

If a development package is available, then ptxdist uses the contents of
the development package to package the ipk package and to build the
sysroot. It doesn't compile the package from source. This even works if
the source isn't available.

One remaining question: What exactly is the checksum? Is it honoured in
the process when ptxdist checks if it uses the development package
instead of building it from source? The ptxdist sources are a bit hard
to read in that area ... at least for me. ;) Wouldn't it make sense to
include the version number of the package in the file name?


Regards,
Bernhard

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