Hello guys,

 

I am trying to build another kernel within your framework. Here is what I did: 

1) copied sun8i.conf to userpaches/sources and modified kernel source url and branch

2) copied patches to userpatches/kernel/sun8i-dev and removed those that made compilation fail 

 

I was able to compile u-boot and kernel, but in the end I am getting the following issue: 

dpkg-deb: error: failed to read archive '/home/sergey/Projects/orangepi/armbian/output/debs/linux-image-dev-sun8i_5.32_armhf.deb': No such file or directory
[ o.k. ] Kernel build done [ @host ]
[ o.k. ] Target directory [ /home/sergey/Projects/orangepi/armbian/output/debs/ ]
[ o.k. ] File name [ linux-image-dev-sun8i_5.32_armhf.deb ]
[ o.k. ] Runtime [ 3 min ]
 

The file 'debs/linux-image-dev-sun8i_5.32_armhf.deb' is absent but there is a file named 'linux-image-4.12.0-next-20170621-sun8i_5.32_armhf.deb'.

 

Logs attached.

What extra changes should I make in build scripts to make it work ?

 

Thanks a lot.

logs-05_07_2017-12_19_11.tgz

You need packaging patch for proper deb packaging.

Wrote on mobile

Igor, thank you for reply.

Can you give more details, please?

 

I see that packaging is done in common.sh in the following code:

 

# produce deb packages: image, headers, firmware, dtb
        eval CCACHE_BASEDIR="$(pwd)" ${toolchain:+env PATH=$toolchain:$PATH} \
                'make -j1 $kernel_packing KDEB_PKGVERSION=$REVISION LOCALVERSION="-"$LINUXFAMILY \
                KBUILD_DEBARCH=$ARCH ARCH=$ARCHITECTURE DEBFULLNAME="$MAINTAINER" DEBEMAIL="$MAINTAINERMAIL" CROSS_COMPILE="$CCACHE $KERNEL_COMPILER" 2>&1' \
                ${PROGRESS_LOG_TO_FILE:+' | tee -a $DEST/debug/compilation.log'} \
                ${OUTPUT_DIALOG:+' | dialog --backtitle "$backtitle" --progressbox "Creating kernel packages..." $TTY_Y $TTY_X'} \
                ${OUTPUT_VERYSILENT:+' >/dev/null 2>/dev/null'}
 

I am not sure  what I  should tweak here.... 

 

You need to include at least this patch and fix it if it has some problems:

https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/patch/kernel/sun8i-dev/packaging-4.x-DEV-with-postinstall-scripts.patch

from here:

https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/master/patch/kernel/sun8i-dev

 

Thank you! It worked like a charm! 

I have zeroed this file because I thought it would be useless.)

 

Hey Igor

 

build went fine  BUT...  I am unexpectedly missing /boot/overlay folder in the resulting image.. 

Where should I look at ? 

Seems like it is handled by add-overlay-compilation-support.patch ?

 

Thanks

 

1 hour ago, ssuloev said:

Hey Igor

 

build went fine  BUT...  I am unexpectedly missing /boot/overlay folder in the resulting image.. 

Where should I look at ? 

Seems like it is handled by add-overlay-compilation-support.patch ?

 

Thanks

 

Well, if you removed all patches, you can't expect the same functionality  There is a lot of added value in there, more than what 4.12 brings. 

 

Some patches will need adjustment if you go up and down on kernel and we do that each time when version is jumped. I am afraid no other way

Yes, you are right.. 

I had to manually adjust 'add-overlay-compilation-support.patch'. 

Now it works

17 hours ago, ssuloev said:

I had to manually adjust 'add-overlay-compilation-support.patch'. 

Now it works

Did you had a lot of adjustments ?

Maybe you work can save us some time when we will switch over 4.12 ...

Not too much.. I had to disable a few patches (you will easily find them by monitoring compilation errors),  and I also had to change 2 required patches. Both files are attached. My changes are specific to sun8i-dev.

add-overlay-compilation-support.patch

packaging-4.x-DEV-with-postinstall-scripts.patch