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16 years ago

GIT distribution on a disk?

By now I have a customized branch for our product. We would like to distribute on DVD the entire development environment. So given the distributed nature of GIT, is it possible to create a disk image that can

be installed and includes all of the files necessary to build my custom

system locally? Sorry for the dumb question, but I'm a GIT newbie..

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    16 years ago

    I created the nios2-linux tar ball using this script.

    - Hippo

    mkdir nios2-linux

    cd nios2-linux

    for i in

    binutils gcc3 linux-2.6 toolchain-build uClibc elf2flt

    insight u-boot uClinux-dist glibc

    do

    git clone -n git://sopc.et.ntust.edu.tw/git/$i.git

    done

    cd linux-2.6

    git remote add linus git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

    git remote add linus_http http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git

    cd ..

    cd uClinux-dist

    git remote add blackfin git://sources.blackfin.uclinux.org/git/readonly-mirrors/uclinux-dist.git

    git remote add blackfin_ssh git+ssh://[email protected]:443/git/readonly-mirrors/uclinux-dist.git

    cd ..

    cd uClibc

    git remote add uclibc git://git.busybox.net/uClibc

    cd ..

    cd u-boot

    git remote add denx git://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git

    cd ..
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    16 years ago

    Thanks Hippo, that is helpful info. Currently I am having a problem regenerating the auto-gen make files in the linux-2.6 directory. I need to do this as the current paths are wrong in the makefiles (from my old machine). Do I need to follow the " BUILD directory for the kernel:" steps in the linux-2.6 readme file? Thanks, Alex

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    16 years ago

    What auto-gen make files do you mean?

    If you use git, those auto-gen make files will be ignored.

    - Hippo
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    16 years ago

    I added some drivers and made some other changes, most notably in the linux-2.6 directory. Now I would like to redistribute this version of the tree with our product. So I committed the changes and made a tar ball. But when I untar the distribution on a new machine and run checkout, it does not regenerate the Makefiles. So the paths are all wrong. That is, they are the paths from the installation on my old machine. Sorry for the stupid question Hippo, but I just don't understand how it's supposed to work. Alex

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    16 years ago

    Hi Alex,

    Let's discuss this on the nios2-dev mailing list. It will be more comfortable for me.

    Please give me examples of the corrupted paths and files.

    - Hippo