Apparently working release.sh, .json.TEMPLATE and boards.txt !

optiboot/boards-1.6.txt

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ optiboot28.bootloader.tool=arduino:avrdude
 optiboot28.bootloader.low_fuses=0xF7
 optiboot28.bootloader.unlock_bits=0x0F
 optiboot28.bootloader.lock_bits=0x2F
+optiboot28.build.f_cpu=16000000L
+
 
 #
 # Other Clock speeds.
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ optiboot32.bootloader.tool=arduino:avrdude
 optiboot32.bootloader.low_fuses=0xF7
 optiboot32.bootloader.unlock_bits=0x2F
 optiboot32.bootloader.lock_bits=0x0F
+optiboot32.build.f_cpu=16000000L
 
 #
 # Other Clock speeds.

optiboot/package_optiboot_optiboot-additional_index.json.TEMPLATE

@@ -1,42 +1,47 @@
+# Template file for generating the .json file that the Arduino IDE
+# "Boards Manager" wants to see.  This file must be pre-processed
+# before it will be valid:
+#  Strip comments.
+#  Replace variables:
+#   %VERSION% gets the Optiboot Version
+#   %HASH% gets the SHA-256 has for the .zip file.
+#    (generate with: openssl dgst -sha256 optiboot.zip | sed -e 's/.* //'
+#   %SIZE% gets the size of the .zip file
+#
 {
   "packages": [
     {
-      "name": "Optiboot-additional",
+      "name": "Optiboot",
       "maintainer": "westfw",
-      "websiteURL": "https://github.com/optboot/optiboot",
+      "websiteURL": "https://github.com/Optiboot/optiboot",
       "email": "",
       "help": {
         "online": ""
       },
       "platforms": [
         {
-          "name": "Additional chips with optiboot",
+          "name": "Optiboot %VERSION%",
           "architecture": "avr",
-          "version": "6.2.0",
+          "version": "0.%VERSION%",
           "category": "Optiboot",
           "help": {
             "online": ""
           },
-          "url": "https://github.com/Optiboot/optiboot/raw/master/optiboot/optiboot.zip",
+          "url": "https://github.com/Optiboot/optiboot/releases/download/v%VERSION%/optiboot.zip",
           "archiveFileName": "optiboot.zip",
-          "checksum": "SHA-256:ab00d9fcf91fe1d81c4fb75058d6b3544d1981a3c95a45eb643e7f0830bbdfc7",
-          "size": "14446",
+          "checksum": "SHA-256:%HASH%",
+          "size": "%SIZE%",
           "boards": [
-            {"name": "Optiboot Bootloader"},
+            {"name": "New Optiboot"}
           ],
           "toolsDependencies": [
-            {
-              "packager": "arduino",
-              "name": "avr-gcc",
-              "version": "4.8.1-arduino5"
-            },
             {
               "packager": "arduino",
               "name": "avrdude",
               "version": "6.0.1-arduino5"
             }
           ]
-        },
+        }
       ]
     }
   ]

optiboot/release.sh

@@ -13,26 +13,31 @@ rm -Rf /tmp/optiboot-release
 
 #
 # Create the 3rd-party hardware extension directory structure
-mkdir /tmp/optiboot-release
-mkdir /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot
-mkdir /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr
-mkdir /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr/bootloaders
-mkdir /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr/bootloaders/optiboot
-cp ../../boards-1.6.txt /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr/boards.txt
+# Note that the structure under "packages" (handed by boards manager)
+# is different than the structure under "sketchbook/hardware" would be.
+
+mkdir -p /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/bootloaders/optiboot
+TOP=/tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/
+cp ../../boards-1.6.txt $TOP/boards.txt
+
 #
 # Create platform.tx, because it contains the "group" name for the boards menu
-echo name=\[Optiboot $1\] > /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr/platform.txt
-echo version=$1 >> /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr/platform.txt
+echo name=Optiboot $1 > $TOP/platform.txt
+echo version=$1 >> $TOP/platform.txt
 
 #
 # Create a README file.
-echo This is an Optiboot version $1 \"Binary\" Release. > /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/README.TXT
-echo >> /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/README.TXT
-echo For Source code see http://github.com/Optiboot/optiboot >> /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/README.TXT
+echo This is an Optiboot version $1 \"Binary\" Release. > $TOP/README.TXT
+echo >> $TOP/README.TXT
+echo For Source code see http://github.com/Optiboot/optiboot>> $TOP/README.TXT
 
 #
 # Copy over our "binaries."
-cp *.hex /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr/bootloaders/optiboot
+cp *.hex $TOP/bootloaders/optiboot
+
+#
+# Copy examples ?  (examples for a boards.txt don't seem possible?)
+
 
 # files we'd specifical exclude, if we weren't doing only .hex files.
 #rm /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr/bootloaders/optiboot/*.lst
@@ -43,5 +48,11 @@ cp *.hex /tmp/optiboot-release/Optiboot/avr/bootloaders/optiboot
 # zip everything up.
 pushd /tmp/optiboot-release
 zip -r Optiboot.zip Optiboot
+HASH=`openssl dgst -sha256 Optiboot.zip | sed -e 's/.* //'`
+SIZE=`stat -f %z Optiboot.zip`
+echo size = $SIZE
+echo hash = $HASH
 popd
+echo sed -e "s/%HASH%/$HASH/" -e "s/%VERSION%/$1/" -e "s/%SIZE%/$SIZE/" ../../package_optiboot_optiboot-additional_index.json.TEMPLATE
+sed -e "s/#.*//" -e "s/%HASH%/$HASH/" -e "s/%VERSION%/$1/" -e "s/%SIZE%/$SIZE/" ../../package_optiboot_optiboot-additional_index.json.TEMPLATE > /tmp/optiboot-release/package_optiboot_optiboot-additional_index.json