Some devices define a BOARD_KERNEL_BASE argument which must be given
as an argument to mkbootimg when building a bootable image. Store the
value of this var (if any) in the target-files zip and use it when
building images.
Make the following things optional:
- kernel command lines for bootable images
- radio images
- bootloader assertions
These are not all (yet?) defined for some new devices.
In python 2.5 and earlier, ZipFile.writestr(filename, data) results in
the file being added to the archive with permissions 000. (See
http://svn.python.org/view?view=rev&revision=65235.) Work around this
by creating a ZipInfo object and setting the permissions explicitly.
Use minigzip (from the zlib distribution, built in the android tree)
to compress images rather than the system install of gzip. This will
let us send useful patches for images since we can make zlib available
in the applypatch program.
Allow the user to set ANDROID_PW_FILE to the name of a file for
storing password keys. When the tools need additional passwords, they
will rewrite this file and invoke the user's editor for the new
passwords to be added. This allows passwords to be reused across
invocations of the signing tools, without making the user reenter them
every time.
Paranoid users can use a file stored in a ramdisk, or not use this
feature at all (the code will prompt for passwords in the ordinary way
when ANDROID_PW_FILE is not set).
The build system now (in donut) produces builds that use the testkey
cert for OTA package verification. Change the app-signing script to
also optionally substitute the "real" cert in both the recovery and
system images. Also fix bug where the build fingerprint and
description were not getting properly updated in the recovery
partition.
building images & OTA packages out of vendor/google.
No device code is touched by this change.
Original author: dougz
Merged from: //branches/cupcake/...
Automated import of CL 144270
