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

2010-03-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Hopefully I have the right To addresses (debian-arm and debian-embedded) as this is the first time I've replied to an email list. On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 14:10 +0100, Hector Oron wrote: (Add debian-embedded@ as Neil was suggesting) Hello, 2010/3/10 Jonathan Wilson piercing_m...@hotmail.com:

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

2010-03-15 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 21:52 +, Neil Williams wrote: http://www.emdebian.org/grip/ Why rebuild? What changes are you making to the packages? (Answers to questions like this should go to the debian-embed...@lists.debian.org mailing list, not debian-devel.) (IMHO - and possibly a lot

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

2010-03-11 Thread Hector Oron
(Add debian-embedded@ as Neil was suggesting) Hello, 2010/3/10 Jonathan Wilson piercing_m...@hotmail.com: What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from scratch/source like the pro's do. linux from scratch is a great reference. ie. Get all the debian source for the

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

2010-03-11 Thread Martin Guy
On 3/10/10, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: ... where is all this documented? has anyone actually done this - documented and automated e.g. how the debian-armel port was created, when previously there was only the debian-arm one? There is a huge difference between

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

2010-03-10 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and PC development, however I know what I want to do but don't know where to start! What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from scratch/source like the pro's do. ie. Get all the debian source for the latest arm port (just the source)

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

2010-03-10 Thread Björn Wetterbom
Could Linux from scratch provide you with at least some of the information you need? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 19:10, Jonathan Wilson piercing_m...@hotmail.com wrote: Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and PC development, however I know what I want to do but

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 6:10 PM, Jonathan Wilson piercing_m...@hotmail.com wrote: Ok I'm quite a newbe to both Linux and PC development, however I know what I want to do but don't know where to start! What I'd like to know is how do I build a distribution entirely from scratch/source like the

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

2010-03-10 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2010/3/10 Björn Wetterbom bjohv...@gmail.com: Could Linux from scratch provide you with at least some of the information you need? is that available for debian? does it rebuild _debian_ packages, entirely and recursively, recreating a debian mirror with a specific set of architecture-specific

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

2010-03-10 Thread Björn Wetterbom
It was a while ago since I did any reading on LFS, but as far as I can remember it simply gives you instructions on how to build a custom Linux OS from scratch by downloading all the sources one by one yourself. I guess that means that the answer to all of your questions is no. 2010/3/10 Luke

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

2010-03-10 Thread Lennart Sorensen
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-of expecting it to be automatic and recursive. what i was

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 lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca 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

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 l...@lkcl.net 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