On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:51:23 +0100 > Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> wrote: > > > +++ Neil Williams [2015-04-07 09:02 +0100]: > > > > > I no longer have write access to the Emdebian website. > > > > You can have some if you want it Neil :-) > > I'd have trouble finding the time to do much with it. Sorry. > > > An OE-based debian build has always been an interesting idea. Nice to > > see someone actually trying it. > > This came up during the early stages of Emdebian Crush - basically the > consensus amongst teams within Debian at the time is that such a > distribution would neither be OE nor Debian. What is it that prevents a package built in one system from installing on the other? > The opportunities for > merging any of this into either would be few and the workload of > maintaining such a double fork is, IMHO, prohibitive. Both pokey-debian and meta-debian have a limited number of packages available so they do appear to be resource constrained. > Doing it once is > one thing, I'm not at all sure how it could be keep up to date with two > divergent (and largely unrelated) bases. An interesting project for a > one-off, maybe. There is a limited niche for systems with the storage > limitations which would necessitate such a distro. > The OE / Yocto advantage is the ability to switch out a BSP easily. I suppose simply building a Debian root file system can achieve the same thing, more or less. Cheers, Jeremiah > > -- > > > Neil Williams > ============= > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ > >
