An update to the Tizen Developer Tools has been released bringing it to version 13.04. Main updates are to gbs, mic and bmap-tools. Distribution Support has been added for OpenSUSE 12.3 and Ubuntu 13.04 and dropped for Ubuntu 11.10
gbs 0.16 release:
- introduce new subcommand ‘createimage/cr’, to create image using ks file
- performance optimization:
- put all build roots in a individual directory, which can be mounted as tmpfs
to speed up building, based on our experimental build time can save 50%. We
use 800 Tizen packages as test data, without tmpfs, gbs spent about 5 hours
to build all packages, but with tmpfs enabled, only 2h, 25mins spent - avoid export multiple times for packages contain multiple spec files
- refine createrepo by using –update to speed up
- bug fixes
- see details release notes at:
http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/RELEASE_NOTES_GBS.txt
mic 0.19 release:
- introduce ‘–part-type’ to handle GPT partition
- copy bmap creation from bmap-tools
- update some depends and fix depends issue
- bug fixes
- see details release notes at:
http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/RELEASE_NOTES_MIC.txt
bmap-tools 2.3 release:
- Add bmap file SHA1 checksum into the bmap file itself in order to
improve robustness of bmaptool - Re-structure the bmap file layout
- Make the test-suite work on btrfs
- see details release notes at:
http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/RELEASE_NOTES_BMAP-TOOLS.txt
Documentation:
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Tools installation:
- https://source.tizen.org/documentation/developer-guide/environment-setup
- gbs: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/git-build-system
- mic: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/mic-image-creator
- bmap-tools: https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool
Download available from http://download.tizen.org/tools/latest-release/
