[Arm-netbook] EOMA68-A20 now booting Linaro distro from uSD card

[Derek]

joem <joem <at> martindale-electric.co.uk> writes:

> 
> On Wed, 2013-09-18 at 15:18 +0200, Arokux X wrote:
> 
> > Joe, you must specify your goal more clearly. So I'll ask once again: 
> > 
> > Do you want to recreate a Linaro ALIP image all the way from sources?
> > 
> > 
> The goal is to create the freedom to distribute working bootable Linux
> distro binary images with tool chain ready to be used as soon as it is
> unzipped and dd'd into a SD card or a sata drive and satisfy the GPL.
> 
> $$$$ Krsching!! $$$

Joe,
I don't think I get it.  Right now, to create a bootable SD card, I'd
partition it, load a kernel and fex, and debootstrap Debian into a root
directory.  What I'd need would be a list of packages, such as "basic",
"development", or "desktop".  I don't think I'd be happy putting 100GB on an
SD card, just to run a basic router.

So, I'm not clear on the value-add to having your 1TB disk, rather than just
a manifest list that I can pass to debootstrap or similar.  Then, you don't
even need to host the source, as debian has source packages already
available.  By the way, "source" packages and not "dev" packages contain the
sources.

The best thing, I think, would be getting the 3.4 kernel patches to go from
debian-standard to sunxi-lkcl-whatever as a debian package, making your
"build and install" script as easy as 'apt-get linux-image-watcha'

soo... why fork a distro?

Derek