On 3/14/07, Christopher Friedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I may have already mentioned this once, but I don't see any harm in
doing it again.
Have any of you used Kuroo ? This is a similar idea - although not
nearly as far along - for managing embedded system builds with portage.
Are there any developer libraries for interfacing with Portage that are
fairly available - [Java, C, C#, ... I've really never used python]
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As an gentoo user & embedded developer, I can see the massive benefits
to both general purpose package management, as well as build automation
for embedded systems, through the use of portage & emerge.
Portage has a major advantage and should really be asserting itself more
in the world of embedded package management. The crossdev utility is by
far an excellent piece of work - I use it for practically every
toolchain now.
However, there are a few questions that I've been asked several times -
(mostly by my boss), such as -
i) why not just use OpenWRT, which will generage a filesystem image,
download your sources, _and_ build a kernel automatically...
ii) why not use that thing from openembedded.org ? ... same idea as above...
Why not? because I think that portage is clearly better, the source is
more current, dependencies are better resolved, more flexible, etc.
Sounds interesting. I use OE extensively and it works well for what I
do. How does this solution handle cross compiling (for example ARM
architectures)? Can you point me to some reading or Google search
phrases. How is it different/similar to OE or scratchbox?
Thanks,
Cliff
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