I am actually bootstrapping the ARM EABI port of Debian, by updating and augmenting Maemo development rootfs into a Debian build system capable of compiling Debian etch packages from source. The other Debian ARM EABI initiatives: Koen Kooi's Angstrom distro and Riku Voipio's experimental repository of armel packages have been a great help in doing this. As distributed, the Maemo-development-rootfs is pretty bare. It doesn't even have "grep" for heaven's sake, which it itself needs to be able to install some other packages, and the best console-based text editor available is "sed" :-/
I don't have a Nokia 770, so I can't make any guarantees about this stuff not breaking your system and making it totally unusable. I would have recommended just picking the packages out one by one and installing them with "dpkg -i", but I had to update many of the libraries and add many others that were missing, so I guess that would be pretty tedious. Before I announce this EXPERIMENTAL repository I will try to make sure that the Maemo development rootfs can just be updated to Debian etch by adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list and saying "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" without breaking anything on the rootfs. If that works, it may work on regular maemo-2.* systems too. Bless M _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
