xGoat » rpm http://xgoat.com/wp Robert Spanton's musings. Sat, 29 May 2010 12:45:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 My first package shipping through Fedora http://xgoat.com/wp/2009/02/05/my-first-package-shipping-through-fedora/ http://xgoat.com/wp/2009/02/05/my-first-package-shipping-through-fedora/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:46:32 +0000 Rob http://xgoat.com/wp/?p=512
After a bit of a delay, msp430-binutils, the first of my gcc packages is now part of Fedora 10. I’m now a sponsored (a.k.a. approved) Fedora packager :-D

So it can now be installed by running:

yum install msp430-binutils

Or, if you’re of PackageKit persuasion:

pkcon install msp430-binutils

msp430-binutils contains a number of tools for working with msp430 binaries. The ones that people will use the most are likely to be the assembler and linker. These are a requirement for the compiler, which I have packaged, but have yet to submit to Fedora. Hopefully I will get gcc in there over the next week — closely followed by the rest of the mspgcc toolchain.

Those who manually installed my packages will get the update through the normal Fedora update sources.

Above image derived from the Tango Desktop Project — CC-SA licence.

Update (5/2/2009): I forgot to mention that this is part of the toolchain required to build the software for the Formica robots!

]]> http://xgoat.com/wp/2009/02/05/my-first-package-shipping-through-fedora/feed/ 11 mspgcc RPMs for F10 http://xgoat.com/wp/2008/12/13/mspgcc-rpms-for-f10/ http://xgoat.com/wp/2008/12/13/mspgcc-rpms-for-f10/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:56:37 +0000 Rob http://xgoat.com/wp/?p=335 I rebuilt the mspgcc packages for Fedora 10:

Once again, you’ll find the specfiles and source RPMs in the same directory.

You can install them all by running:

su -c "rpm -Uvh http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-binutils-2.18-1.fc10.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gcc-3.2.3-1.20080827cvs.fc10.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-libc-0-1.20080828cvs.fc10.noarch.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gdb-6.8-1.fc10.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gdbproxy-0.7.1-1.fc10.i386.rpm"

Update (13/02/2009): msp430-binutils is now in Fedora (as I wrote in this post).

]]> http://xgoat.com/wp/2008/12/13/mspgcc-rpms-for-f10/feed/ 3 msp430-gdb in RPM form http://xgoat.com/wp/2008/11/17/msp430-gdb-in-rpm-form/ http://xgoat.com/wp/2008/11/17/msp430-gdb-in-rpm-form/#comments Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:50:31 +0000 Rob http://xgoat.com/wp/?p=238 Tom has been around here for the past few days working on the new Student Robotics kit with me. We got to the point where Tom needed to use msp430-gdb so he could debug the firmware for the msp430 on the power board. I’ve previously packaged the compiler, mspgcc, but I hadn’t got around to packaging gdb.

I decided that my time would be better invested if I finished packaging msp430-gdb rather than performing another source install on someone else’s machine. Whilst I was at it, I also packaged msp430-gdbproxy and the udev rule required to get the UIF to work.

Now all the mspgcc packages are available for Fedora 9:

You’ll find the specfiles and source RPMs in the same directory.

You can install them all by running:

su -c "rpm -Uvh http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-binutils-2.18-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gcc-3.2.3-1.20080827cvs.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-libc-0-1.20080828cvs.fc9.noarch.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gdb-6.8-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rds/rpm/mspgcc/msp430-gdbproxy-0.7.1-1.fc9.i386.rpm"

I’m still waiting for someone to review my request to get binutils for msp430 into Fedora. :-/

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  • I started the week with little understanding of the Linux ARM boot process, Steve’s NSLU2 and the need to get a working Linux install on it. Tom and I spent a considerable amount of time working on getting it to work. Almost all of the problem was because for some (yet to be fully determined) reason, the kernel is passed an incorrect machine code by redboot. Whether this is because someone’s flashed the slug in the past, I don’t know. I ended the week with an understanding of the ARM MMU, linux ARM boot process and a working booting slug with functioning network adapter :-)
  • I created my first RPM. :-D I spent christmas eve reading various documentation on the subject, and so have packaged my yum plugin. I’ve stuck the spec file, srpm and rpm up for public access.
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