Re: About restart Emdebian / Emdebain Crush

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>]

Hi,

Thanks for your comment.

2018-09-12 12:55 GMT+09:00 Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com>:
> Are you saying that you want to use your Debian workstation to run something
> like buildroot-ng, to create a busybox-based root filesystem for a device?
>
> Or, are you wanting to create and then run a small-footprint Debian on a
> device?

I want to do both.
I want to create and run a small-footprint Debian on a device.

>
> As I recall it,  Emdebian Crush ended because multiarch replaced much of it,
> and broke the rest of it. This was expected, since Crush was kind of a
> workaround for pre-multiarch.

About the cross compile environment, as you wrote, it became useless
by support of M-A.
I understand that there was a small rootfs using busybox and uclibc
(This may not have been supported yet.)
as another feature of Crush. Is this right?

>
> There might be easier ways to get to where you want to be than to bring
> Emdebian Crush back from the dead.

https://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianCrush

Indeed, when I saw this, as you wrote, I thought it would be better to
consider another way than to back Crush.

>
> b.g.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:03 PM Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm interested in building a busybox based distribution using Debian.
>>
>>
>> In Emdebian there was Emdebian Crush, but now it is stopped.
>> I want to restart this and Emdebian. Can I use servers and tools that
>> Emdebian used?
>> What should I do now?
>>
>> And are there any other interested people?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>   Nobuhiro
>>
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>
> Bill Gatliff
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