Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-11 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:46:57 + Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > > *Precisely* what changes do you need for that "architecture" - is it > > really a different architecture from armel? (Answers to debian-embedded > > please.) > > h

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-11 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > *Precisely* what changes do you need for that "architecture" - is it > really a different architecture from armel? (Answers to debian-embedded > please.) hi neil, firstly thank you for the informative post, esp. the history about actually

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:52:57 + Neil Williams wrote: > > has anyone actually done this > > Yes. Me - I was cross-building the entire chain too. It took me the > best part of a year to get through 200 packages. i.e. SERIOUSLY > reconsider precisely how many packages you want to rebuild and ho

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:08:30 + Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: (When replying, please shorten the CC list, preferably only to the debian-embedded list.) > >> a bit like openembedded. It's much easier to not do things like OE and to actually build incrementally, putting dependencies int

Re: Very newbe help/pointers required about building a distribution from scratch

2010-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 07:20:04PM +, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> yeah - i'd like to know how to do this, too. i installed buildd (and >> wannabuild) but there appears to be some "manual" steps involved, and >> i was kind-