Package alternative mkbootimg/unpackbootimg (osm0sis' fork of the AOSP/CM C code)?
Created by: ollieparanoid
In #145 (closed) we were discussing using this fork as alternative for both mkbootimg
and unpackbootimg
. I have even mailed the author if he could add tags to the repository, so we could download properly versioned archives instead of a random git hash.
In the end, we didn't even need to change it, because the tool we use already outputs all needed information. But the author has responded and started to tag releases now: https://github.com/osm0sis/mkbootimg/releases
...so I feel like I should at least let everyone know that we have the option to do this!
Some properties of this tool:
- Based on AOSP's and CyanogenMod's C code for mkbootimg/unpackbootimg (the current code is based on Python, since
mkbootimg
in AOSP was rewritten in Python) - Has proper version tags
- Has as goal to support all kinds of devices (also has the
qtdb
feature, we recently switched themkbootimg
source for that) - Prints out more than our current unpackbootimg
- Seems to be well maintained
So what we have right now works for us and I am not that interested anymore in changing it. But if you want to have this version of mkbootimg
or if you are against it with a good reason, please comment here.