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

[Philip Hands]

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

> On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 13:33 +0100, luke.leighton wrote:
>
>> >> >> >  one other thing... probably a good idea... the output from
>> >> >> > "arm-linux-gnueabi-hf-gcc --version".  this gives the exact compiler
>> >> >> > version, plus its build date and so on.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> command not found
>> >> >>
>> >> >> "Verbosity makes things unclear."
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > The results for "arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc --version" uploaded:
>> >> > http://www.gplsquared.com/eoma_boot/eoma_boot.html#linaro_boot_uSD_image
>> >>
>> >>  excellent!  y'know what, i think that covers everything.
>> >
>> >
>> > YEEEHAA!!! Finally!!! :)
>> >
>> >
>> >>  in 3-6 months time you'll know if you did, because in 3-6 months time
>> >> you'll completely forget everything that was discussed, will attempt
>> >> to recreate the image, and will - or will not - be able to :)
>> >
>> >
>> > Still in need of a 20 year plan for surviving bit rot.
>> 
>>  wget --mirror --no-parent -r -l20 http://archive.ubuntu.com/blahblah
>> should do the trick.
>> 
>
> Thanks its immense.
> I am going to try and grab it at some point...

You'd probably be much better off using 'reprepro', which will allow you
to build a distribution repository of the same sort that ubuntu have
there, and will ensure that you have all the sources that go with the
binaries that you have.

It also makes it easy to have local repositories, with all the nice
extra stuff, like signing the packages to prove they are the ones you
are vouching for.

It also lets you have repositories that are mostly created by mirroring
the packages from such a well-known repository, but with a few locally
added or overridden packages, which you may find useful (although you
should then be careful about the way you do your versions -- look at the
debian-backports stuff where they add ~bpo ... you'd want to use your
own ~whatever though of course).

Cheers, Phil.
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