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diff --git a/rsb/history.rst b/rsb/history.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb2c216 --- /dev/null +++ b/rsb/history.rst @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.. 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. |