[Arm-netbook] Rebuilding official OS images?

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 07:26:00PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Matt Campbell <mattcampbell at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Are there scripts somewhere for building the official OS images for the A20
> > card, from official distro package repositories, using debootstrap or the
> > equivalent tool for other distros?
> 
>  i've been following various instructions online.  typically (and
> rather unhelpfully - see discussions dating back several years) the
> quotes normal quotes way is to create a quotes disk image quotes.  you
> can tell i'm not very impressed with this practice.
> 

A lot of the Allwinner chips require an sd card image. You may well
find that the basis of the Cubietruck image will work. The Debian CD maitainers
are fairly appropriate. Allwinner may also require FEL loading whihc is non-standard:
I'm assuming that u-boot should work for you.

An unmodified Debian image built in the same way as there are images built
for beagleboard / cubietruck would be useful and achievable, I'd have thought.

Note also that Debian are working hard towards fully reproducible builds.

Andy C

[amacater at galactic.demon.co.uk / amacater at debian.org] 



> 
> > I think it's important that the official OS images aren't just cobbled
> > together by one person, with no one else knowing how to do it; in other
> > words, the build process should be documented, reproducible, and ideally,
> > fully automated.
> 
>  i have such a huge amount to do already that i'm going to need help
> doing that.  i've outlined some of the process in the updates for the
> two OSes i've done recently.
> 
> l.
> 
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