A couple of issues are resolved by moving to the mainline kernel (from Pali's
kernel):
1) 'reboot' command now works as intended
2) boot is *much* faster
3) charging LED seems to be working now
The uInitrd filename is appended with 'flavor' so, for example, with the
rx-51 the generated file is named 'uInitrd-nokia-rx51'. This corrects
the rx51's u-boot script to account for this change in filename.
This removes the call to `firmware_install` in the APKGBUILD for
linux-nokia-rx51, and adds the `linux-firmware` package as a dependency
for device-nokia-rx51.
There are two immediate benefits for this:
1) wifi now works
2) the FM radio device was causing the boot to take ~2 minutes longer
than it should, now that the firmware is present there's no delay in
initializing this device
This is required for developing and testing the binary repository
scripts (see #64). Changes:
* When specified, the local folder gets mounted inside the chroots
as /mnt/postmarketos-mirror
* The apkindex_files() function outputs the correct path to the local
repository (it does *not* hash the URL in that case, which would
be wrong)
* /etc/apk/repositories: when the pmOS mirror is a local folder,
the path "/mnt/postmarketos-mirror" gets added to that file instead
of the outside path (so apk finds it properly inside the chroot)
This is important for the binary repository scripts, so it's feasible
to test the binary package build and challenge process locally without
setting up a new chroot whenever changing the repo URLs.
Also it behaves a bit more intuitively, because it really uses the
repo URL specified on the commandline, even when the chroot is already
set up.
TLDR: Always rebuild/install packages when something changed when executing "pmbootstrap install/initfs/flash", more speed in dependency resolution.
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pmbootstrap has already gotten some support for "timestamp based rebuilds", which modifies the logic for when packages should be rebuilt. It doesn't only consider packages outdated with old pkgver/pkgrel combinations, but also packages, where a source file has a newer timestamp, than the built package has.
I've found out, that this can lead to more rebuilds than expected. For example, when you check out the pmbootstrap git repository again into another folder, although you have already built packages. Then all files have the timestamp of the checkout, and the packages will appear to be outdated. While this is not largely a concern now, this will become a problem once we have a binary package repository, because then the packages from the binary repo will always seem to be outdated, if you just freshly checked out the repository.
To combat this, git gets asked if the files from the aport we're looking at are in sync with upstream, or not. Only when the files are not in sync with upstream and the timestamps of the sources are newer, a rebuild gets triggered from now on.
In case this logic should fail, I've added an option during "pmbootstrap init" where you can enable or disable the "timestamp based rebuilds" option.
In addition to that, this commit also works on fixing #120: packages do not get updated in "pmbootstrap install" after they have been rebuilt. For this to work, we specify all packages explicitly for abuild, instead of letting abuild do the resolving. This feature will also work with the "timestamp based rebuilds".
This commit also fixes the working_dir argument in pmb.helpers.run.user, which was simply ignored before.
Finally, the performance of the dependency resolution is faster again (when compared to the current version in master), because the parsed apkbuilds and finding the aport by pkgname gets cached during one pmbootstrap call (in args.cache, which also makes it easy to put fake data there in testcases).
The new dependency resolution code can output lots of verbose messages for debugging by specifying the `-v` parameter. The meaning of that changed, it used to output the file names where log messages come from, but no one seemed to use that anyway.
* Add kernel module compilation
* Add wifi firmware from vendor files (to `/lib/firmware/postmarketos`) and fix modules install path
* Add patch to change hardcoded dhd firmware/nvram paths
* Add wifi module (dhd) to the list of kernel modules that should be loaded at boot time
Details:
https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/pull/138
Thanks you very much, drebrez \o/
