On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 16:06 +0200, ext Riku Voipio wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:17:21PM +0200, Ed Bartosh wrote: > > This is set of about 40 emdebianized packages, scratchbox-based > > development environment and a couple of working root filesystems for > > Nokia 770 device. It's far from perfect but it works. > > That's quite modest of you - now we (emdebian) have a a working > emdebian roofts, which will hopefully attract more developers, > as there is something to actually play with. Yeah, hopefully :)
> > This implementation uses scratchbox as a cross-compilation environment. It > > includes modified scratchbox, > > You didn't have patches for these modifications? is there other changes > than just adding emdebian tools? Ie is Philippes emdebian devkit usable > with these? You can find patches for debhelper and dpkg in scratchbox sources. I also included mtd (built by you) and svn-buildpackage to scratchbox. That's probably it. I didn't try to install emdebian devkit on top of my scratchbox build, so I have no idea if it works or not, sorry. > > 5. TODO list > > ------------ > > > o uclibc builds (arm and i386) > > This needs a automatic build-dependency sorting tool, which takes in > account a) tools provided by sbox b) arch:all deb packages, that can > be ignored. This is something I've wanted to do for a while from now, > but didn't have time to get it finished yet.. >From my point of view that needs the same things that i made for glibc build - development rootstrap full of build-deps and some effort for package building. > > o build system > > This is the same as above or..? using Debian's official buildd > architecture here might be a bit too heavyweight. > I'm going to use Nokia solution for that in future. I don't think it's urgent, because almost all packages can be rebuilt easily by trivial script (I actually used this approach for emdebian build) now. > > o cleanup rootimage scripts > > Or modify debootstrap/cdebootstrap more usable for creating emdebian > rootimages. With the chroot wrapper in sbox 1.0.2 it is possible > debootstrap sarge atleast. However, it's a lot slower than the > current "unpack all, configure and fire" approach of make_rootimage Yep, I agree. > > o upgrade packages to upstrim(testing?) versions. > > This the question that needs most thinking. To become accepted part > of debian instead of prodigy fork, emdebian should be buildable > from debian source packages available from ftp.debian.org. However, > it might be that many debian developers who don't do embedded > development, might not be very accepting of the idea of a > separate emdebian/ dir in their packages. > > > o implement lintian check for emdebian packages > > linda is probably easier to extend. OK, I'll make changes in the TODO. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
