Re: Embedded Debian, the 5 lb bag.
ext Dan Kegel wrote:
Yes. But ptxdist is, from what I can see, the cleanest and
most automated of all of those. It's like Erik Andersen's
buildroot, but it supports not just uclibc but also glibc.
That could very well be used for building stage 1.
Wow, 500 to 1000 stage 1 packages! I was expecting the number to be
lower. Are there really that many circular dependencies?
Oh, I didn't mean that there would be 500 - 1000 stage 1 packages. I
meant that we should not have to worry about circular dependencies in
the rest of the distribution.
Stage 1: ptxdist or something similar to put together enough tools to
support building stage 2
Stage 2: "core" set of Debian packages is built and installed,
definitely less than 100 components, some packages might be built with a
reduced feature set to limit dependencies
Stage 3: build the remainder of the "buildable from scratch" packages
(500 - 1000) and rebuild the modified packages from stage 2.
> If we use ptxdist for stage1, we won't need either scratchbox
or modified debian packages.
How do you plan to compile coreutils for example? It depends (through
documentation generation tools) on XFree86. You will still want to have
that documentation available for end-users. I'm sure that we need to
change some of the stage 2 packages so that the documentation can be
switched off. Some of the packages already allow this (somewhat
cleanly), but not all. Also the documentation tools should be
standardized for stage 2 packages to make this whole thing easier.
Further benefit of separating documentation from binaries for stage 2
packages is that then embedded developers could easily leave them out of
their targets. It would be really nice to have the same done for all of
stage 3 packages as well.
/lauri
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