This commit implements a complete parallel repository management system
that allows building and publishing Debian repositories in parallel,
significantly reducing build time for multiple distributions.
- `update-main`: Builds common/main component once for all releases
- `update -R <release>`: Builds release-specific components in isolated DBs
- `merge`: Combines common + release-specific components into final repos
- Isolated databases (aptly-isolated-<release>) avoid locking during parallel builds
- Common component built once, not duplicated per release
- Release-specific components (utils, desktop) built independently
- Final merge combines all components with proper GPG signing
- Fixed GPG signing to target top-level Release files (dists/{release}/Release)
- Pool cleanup before publishing avoids "file already exists" errors
- Smart package import skips duplicates during merge
- Proper handling of empty repositories and missing components
- Improved error handling and logging throughout
1. update-main: Build common component (once)
2. update -R <release>: Parallel workers build release-specific components
3. merge: Combine all components and publish with GPG signatures
This enables GitHub Actions to run multiple release builders in parallel,
reducing total repository build time from hours to minutes.
Signed-off-by: Igor Pecovnik <igor@armbian.com>
- move patches into version folder (`atf-rockchip` -> `atf-rockchip/v2.13`)
- also prepares patches for v2.14 since I had them anyway
- keeps using v2.13 for now, someone can test v2.14 later and bump; I've no rk3399
- new patches:
- add `-no-pie` to rk3399's m0 build LDFLAGS (since upstream doesn't honor M0_LDFLAGS)
- bump PMSURAM_RSIZE from 8k to 16k to avoid overflows - confirmed working by Amazingfate
- build tested OK on jammy/bookworm/trixie/noble/resolute
- resolute's gcc 15 and it still builds
- now each arch has its own dt folder, with its own Makefile auto-patched
- simple Makefile autopatching with `add-only: true`
- as example convert 01 null-patch to bare-dt in `dt_32/` (drop from series too)
- Autopatcher was commiting atrocities to the upstream DTs that are so
carefully hand-crafted, by simply rewriting everything, or trying to be
smart and failing at it (`incremental: true`)
- Instead, add `add-only: true` mode, where we simply only ever add to the
end of the Makefile, adding each new .dts and optionally the `subdir-y`
for overlays
- desktop images have half the world in their initrd (plymouth?)
- `bdinfo` shows reserved regions, which are hit depending on the size of initrd
- when reserved region is hit, u-boot says `** Reading file would overwrite reserved memory **`
- done by AI after looking at `bdinfo` reserved regions
- hard lesson: all `0x` hex have to be double quoted, otherwise `Wrong image format for "source" command`
- add note about Meco having conjured up `load_addr` (it's `loadaddr`); doesn't hurt
- while at it, remove copypasta/duplicate bootlogo/consoleargs stanza
- similar to `rkdevflash`, but for Mediatek devices
- also simpler; lk.bin & fip.img are produced by image build and directly used
- requires Rust+Cargo, so add those to hostdeps
- since this is a core extension, those will be included in all Docker images too
- which was bound to happen anyway since Rust in Linux Kernel is no longer an experiment
- extensions/mtkflash: sha1-based bin path, use fork & add `--no-erase-boot1`
- example invocation:
- `BOARD=radxa-nio-12l BRANCH=collabora RELEASE=trixie EXT=ufs,mtkflash MTKFLASH_TTYACM_DEVICE=1`
- u-boot stores env in UFS LUN 1
- use a 2mb offset (different from vendor/Collabora's) to avoid any env conflict
- point fw_printenv/setenv at it at the correct offset and size
- set SRC_CMDLINE, used in extlinux/EXT=u-boot-menu scenarios
- note about d4/d8/d16 irrelevance now as we have RAM autodetection
- note about where the blobs (libdram/libbase/lk.bin) live in GH: https://github.com/armbian/mtkbin
- this patches u-boot default addresses with the same values used in the boot-genio bootscript
- this enables booting extlinux with large kernels and initrd (eg: `EXT=u-boot-menu`)
- backport fixes from upstream u-boot for
- BTRFS (plus enable BTRFS and BZIP2 support for radxa-nio-12l)
- tested with `CARD_DEVICE=/dev/mmcblk1 ROOTFS_TYPE=btrfs BTRFS_COMPRESSION=zstd` (no UFS!)
- also with `EXT=ufs CARD_DEVICE=/dev/sdc ROOTFS_TYPE=btrfs BTRFS_COMPRESSION=zstd` (UFS!)
- 4k block size UFS for UMS: fixes block size issue (USB issues unhandled)
- Enable "bind" command for the Mediatek-standard USB Gadget Ethernet
- this way, one doesn't need to cripple UFS to be able to boot from SD
- USB didn't get the same treatment as it's slow and **not working**...
- ...and beyond me to fix; both OTG and Host mode are funky in u-boot...
- ...but seem to work fine in kernel
- IMPORTANT: keep in mind: "SDcard is NOT UFS (4k block)" and don't fall for traps!
- Network note:
- `setenv ethaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx` & `saveenv` & `reset`
- required for network booting; mtk doesn't use random/cpu# MAC
- required for stable MAC in kernel (keep IP from changing, etc)
