Add ipk package builder script and makefile target

[EmilioPeJu]

The IPK package will be used in the yocto rootfs.

[coretl]

I guess that creating ipk files is manual. That seems to have an annoying amount of boilerplate, and will be used in at least 3 repos. I suggest:

• Putting control as a flat text file in the root of the repo (maybe named ipk-control?)
• Making a python package called ipk-build package on pypi that has a single ipk-build entrypoint that does the same as this script
• Installing it into the devcontainer along with all the other python deps
• Calling it from the makefile in this repo and other places that need to make ipk files

Please can you prototype this as a single python script ipk-build.py in this repo and we'll take it from there

[EmilioPeJu]

Hi @coretl, the reason I did it this way is to avoid adding more dependencies, if you prefer to do so, we should use the project opkg-util which was made for this task.

[coretl]

I suggest adding it as a submodule and calling it from there then (it doesn't seem to be published on pypi)

[EmilioPeJu]

OK, I've done a similar change to the one in the FPGA repo, the packaging related files are under packaging including the new submodule. The zpkg related part has been removed as requested, this doesn't allow to remove the PandABlocks-rootfs dependency because of some github-release script.

[coretl]

The zpkg related part has been removed as requested, this doesn't allow to remove the PandABlocks-rootfs dependency because of some github-release script.

I think that script is only used in this repo, because all the other GitHub releases are made by CI in GitHub. This is the only one that requires pushing locally, so unless you can find any other references in other repos you can move that script to this repo.

[EmilioPeJu]

Done! it turned out that make-githu-release.py was removed from panda rootfs, I had to copy it from an old commit.