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diff --git a/rsb/history.rst b/rsb/history.rst deleted file mode 100644 index eb2c216..0000000 --- a/rsb/history.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,24 +0,0 @@ -.. comment SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 - -.. comment COPYRIGHT (c) 2012 - 2016. -.. comment Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org> - -History -####### - -The RTEMS Source Builder is a stand alone tool based on another tool called the -'SpecBuilder'. The SpecBuilder was written for the RTEMS project to give me a -way to build tools on hosts that did not support RPMs. At the time the RTEMS -tools maintainer only used spec files to create various packages. This meant I -had either spec files, RPM files or SRPM files. The RPM and SPRM files where -useless because you needed an 'rpm' type tool to extract and manage them. There -are versions of 'rpm' for a number of non-RPM hosts however these proved to be -in various broken states and randomly maintained. The solution I settled on was -to use spec files so I wrote a Python based tool that parsed the spec file -format and allowed me to create a shell script I could run to build the -package. This approach proved successful and I was able to track the RPM -version of the RTEMS tools on a non-RPM host over a number of years. however -the SpecBuilder tool did not help me build tools or other packages not related -to the RTEMS project where there was no spec file I could use so I needed -another tool. Rather than start again I decided to take the parsing code for -the spec file format and build a new tool called the RTEMS Source Builder. |