On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 2:07 PM Lovell, James A [US] (MS)
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I’m trying to get some information on the Beaglebone Debian port versus the 
> Debian armhf and armel ports.  Can you help me answer the following questions?

Debian almost dropped "armel" during Buster development cycle, it days
going forward is very limited..

> 1.       Is a synopsis available of the differences between the Beaglebone 
> Debian port and the mainline Debian ports for the same architecture?

The BeagleBone Debian Images is not a port of Debian..  Instead, we
start with a pure Debian install, then add our Custom Kernel, Custom
u-boot and any packages either not in Debian, or backported from
Stable+1..

> 2.       Does Beaglebone Debian follow the Debian product lifecycle?

Sure, let's look at Debian's product lifecycle:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases

Version  Code name  Release date End of life date EOL LTS EOL ELTS

10 Buster  2019-07-06 ~2022
9   Stretch 2017-06-17 ~2020 ~2022
8   Jessie  2015-04-25  2018-06-17 ~2020-06-30

Then lets look at this email i sent out, detailing my plan for Jessie
and Stretch:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/beagleboard/1J7alzYGum4/pjjrPYo0DQAJ

>
> 3.       Will the same security bulletins, patches, and releases from 
> https://security.debian.org be applicable to Beaglebone Debian?  If so, does 
> Beaglebone defer to the Debian package trees for actual package updates?

This can be easily explained by looking at our /etc/apt/sources.list

debian@BeagleBoard-X15:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main
contrib non-free

#Kernel source (repos.rcn-ee.com) :
https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee
#
#git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee
#cd ./linux-stable-rcn-ee
#git checkout `uname -r` -b tmp
#
deb [arch=armhf] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian/ buster main
#deb-src [arch=armhf] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian/ buster main


> We’re currently working an embedded engineering project that utilizes the TI 
> AM335x SoC architecture, and I’ve been having a bit of trouble understanding 
> how the Beaglebone Black Debian lifecycle works.  Any information you can 
> provide would be a great help.

Regards,


--
Robert Nelson
https://rcn-ee.com/

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