Hello, To fuel the discussion we had lately about how we should approach building a new mini-debian I have put online some of the work I did in that direction for my master thesis. http://users.pandora.be/stag However as I aimed it to be used on really small systems (I am more or less on the embedsys terrain), I use several principles we more or less discussed. I came up with my own naming scheme, but everything can still be adapted. All remarks are welcome (as I have at least still 3 1/2 months time before I have to submit it, and so I will also work hard on it for at least that period of time.) Things that will have to change for a real mini-debian distro (I already know of): - installation of the packages in root, not in a directory where images will be made from. Can be solved easely by making a symlink to the standard installation dir of my packages and /. - another init system - adding an installation system to start with. Strong points : - cross-compilable source packages aimed at being small. - uses the standard Debian tools (though with small adaptions but nothing drastic) - trying to be Debian compliant (only lacks copyright file (I thought of putting the license in the package description) and docs) - already documented :-) There is only demo material for the moment, if you have an arm machine like a netwinder you could install the packages and use the created subdirectory as a chrooted environment to test it. I am still working on it, however I am in exams now so everything has more or less come to a standstill for the last 2 weeks. Take a look at it and tell me what you like and dislike. greets, Philippe
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