On 03/09/2012 08:35 AM, Jon Gettler wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Dan Rollo<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having to rebuild my mvpmc setup (and sadly I didn't think to backup
>> my /tftpboot/ folder...).
>>
>> Anyway, towards that end, I'm trying to download the latest dongle.bin
>> from the mvpmc.org websit from: http://www.mvpmc.org/builds/ (the link
>> shown under Daily Builds ->  USA), and the link appears to be broken.
>>
>> All I see is a github message page: "Page does not exist!...".
>>
>> Is there some other place to download from?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan
>
> The daily builds were stopped as part of the server switch at the end
> of December, and as of yet, they have not been resumed.  The UK link
> (http://uk.mvpmc.org/builds/) still works for finding builds through
> December 30.
>
> Jon

Aha, that explains it.

The good news is I was able to build my own mvp dongle from the source 
by following the steps here: 
https://github.com/mvpmc/mvpmc/blob/master/README

On my ubuntu 10.04 (64bit), this basically meant:
$ sudo apt-get install scons
$ git clone https://github.com/mvpmc/mvpmc.git
$ cd mvpmc
$ make mvp

In setting up the network boot, I then ran into some file naming 
confusion. In order to get the tftpboot operation to run the 
dongle.config script, I did some nasty duplication of files / names 
(which I found described here: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/LinuxFlashboot)

cp dongle.bin.mvpmc dongle.bin
cp dongle.bin.mvpmc.ver dongle.bin.ver
cp dongle.bin.mvpmc.config dongle.bin.config

So my follow-up question:
Do we know for sure which of these files needs to be duplicated (and/or 
maybe which of the original file names is just plain wrong, and should 
be deleted/renamed in both docs and in in /tftpboot/ dir)?

I ran out of cycles (and breath traversing stairs) while trying to 
experiment with the naming to answer this question myself, so I thought 
I'd ask.


My follow-up to the follow-up question: Jon, can you tell me more about 
how the nightly builds were done previously (and/or share the script 
used)? I ask because I already run a few Continuous Integration builds 
in my basement for some open source projects, and if there is interest, 
maybe I could setup a similar build for mvpmc? Disclosure: I'm a java 
guy, and I know just enough C to be a danger to myself and those around 
me. My existing OSS CI builds are java projects (well 'jna' sort of 
crosses the border, but that build is currently broken due to a winz/gcc 
tool issue), so I'll probably bother people with stupid builder tricks 
if I go forward with this.

Thanks,
Dan

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