Re: guruplug notes
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 02:58:51PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> interesting, i'll look into that too and try to report back. the
> built-in help documentation in u-boot is pretty paltry (says the guy who
> mistakenly used it to wipe his flash :/)
>
> I asked earlier but got no response: is there a reason u-boot is not in
> debian? It seems to be GPLv2+.
>
> I just filed an RFP: http://bugs.debian.org/583605
>
> Anyone interested in packaging u-boot for debian? Are there other
> preferred bootloaders? Any reasons it shoudn't be in debian?
Package uboot for which system?
uboot pretty much #defines everything for a given system and compiles
based on that, so you would need to just about make a seperate package
for every target system you want to make a uboot for. That could be a
lot of packages. not to say it shouldn't happen, I am just not sure if
it would happen. Would you want to rebuild 200 target packages if you
make a change to the source code which only affects 1 or 2 targets?
That is after all what a package would tend to do.
--
Len Sorensen
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