On Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:05:26 +0100
Ian Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 12:06 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > [...]
> > > There is still an unresolved inconvenience related to Linux
> > > distributions arbitrarily renaming the tools when doing sunxi-tools
> > > packaging. It would be great if we could have a unification of the
> > > tool names just for the sake of ensuring that the documentation and
> > > howto guides can be easily used without confusing the users.
> >
> > The Debian package (of v1.2-ish) has:
> > install -m0755 usb-boot $(PKG)/usr/bin/sunxi-usb-boot
> > install -m0755 fel $(PKG)/usr/bin/sunxi-fel
> > install -m0755 fexc $(PKG)/usr/bin/sunxi-fexc
> > install -m0755 bootinfo $(PKG)/usr/bin/sunxi-bootinfo
> >
> > I'd be happy to put that together as a patch for upstream instead.
>
> If we do want to do this then there's a few choices to make:
>
> Which tools to prefix with "sunxi-" and which to not. I'd be inclined
> to prefix most of them except but keep fex2bin bin2fex as they are.
>
> Renaming the source files vs. having the Makefile e.g. build fel.c into
> a sunxi-fel binary. Makefile has a mixture of explicit rules and a
> implicit (%: %.c) one.
>
> Shall we add an install target to the Makefile or not. If yes then
> which tools is useful to add to the install target.
>
> I would rule out having the install target perform the rename, since I
> think it is not uncommon for instructions etc to involve running the
> tools right out of the build tree, so having those use different names
> to what is installed would be v. confusing.
>
> I'd be inclined to:
> * Prefix everything except bin2fex+fex2bin with sunxi-
> * Try doing the rename via Makefile runes to start with but consider
> renaming if the Makefile gets too ugly
> * Add an install rule starting with just the 4 mentioned above. Others
> can be added later.
>
> In the absence of any objections I'll knock up a patch one evening this
> week.
Thanks! That's a move in the right direction.
BTW, Fedora is also doing sunxi-tools renaming (at least for bootinfo
and usb-boot according to their changelog):
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/sunxi-tools.git/commit/?id=278562dda1c13c7ae1b466a7f938933dff7bf0ce
Hence I also added Lubomir Rintel to CC. It would be great to ensure
that at least Fedora and Debian maintainers come to an agreement about
their tools naming preferences.
IMHO it's best to do this renaming right now. So that it comes together
with user visible features, which exist in the current sunxi-tools git
repository. At least there would be an incentive for the users to
upgrade to the upcoming sunxi-tools release and thus finally put an
end to this tool names mismatch chaos.
--
Best regards,
Siarhei Siamashka
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