Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> In light of my recent decision to abandon waiting for Butterfly, I am taking
> a long, hard look at working with Monta-Vista's Hard-Hat linux.
> Another benefit of using something like HardHat is multi-processor support.
> NOTE: I'm still very open to suggestions on what to use as the base of the
> next generation of LRP like functionality. I'm mainly looking at starting
> with an existing distribution because 'out of the box' you get a working
> cross-compile environment (no more dedicated Debian Slink boxes just to
> compile an application or two), and much of the software will be
> pre-packaged.
I suppose it depends on what you want to do. However, this sounds
like you want to switch distributions entirely; isn't this the same as
starting from scratch?
> While the pre-packaged stuff will likely be in RPM format, it
> should be possible to easily convert the RPM's to a tar.gz file or something
> else shell-scripts can deal with.
Busybox already has support for undoing RPMs (unrpm); use that.
> A lot of the hard work (that requires
> maintainence and debugging) goes into making sure the packages all work well
> together...we should be able to leverage this work from a mainstream
> distribution and speed our "time to solution". I really don't want to try
> to create or maintain a complete, from the ground up distribution...it seems
> like too much duplication of existing work.
This sounds like you are looking to go to "the next step" and leave
floppy distributions and LRP far behind. There are quite a few
CDROM-based routers out there. Peanut perhaps...
I'd like to stay with the current base for several reasons:
* Existing package support
* Knowledge base is built up already; otherwise Charles & Mike S. &
Mike N. & Jacques & Jeff & Ray & Rick & Ewald & Pi et al ....would
have to learn a new distro.
* Floppy-based operations is still important - to me, the floppy
should still be the base, and in fact should be a drop-in install for
a bootable CDROM floppy image.
However, a shift towards RPMs would be nice.
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