On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Alexander Sack <a...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:23:37PM -0300, Ricardo Salveti wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> RootStock 0.1.99.4 is now official. >> >> This version brings more bug fixes plus a couple of important features >> before 0.2. >> >> Now you can run rootstock as user, by giving the argument --no-root. >> Running as user will require to run debootstrap's second phase and >> first boot entirely in a VM, so things can be slower than running as >> root. >> >> When running rootstock in a x86* machine, the normal path now goes >> with chroot and qemu-arm-static as running the first boot in a VM is >> quite unstable. >> >> Another interesting feature is the ability to run rootstock in a >> native ARM environment. This is probably the best way to generate big >> images, as we avoid all the issues with Qemu. >> >> For more information please check >> https://edge.launchpad.net/project-rootstock/trunk/0.1.99.4 and >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootStock/KnownIssues for known issues. >> >> Please give it a try and let us know about any issues you may find. > > Thanks for working on this Ricardo. > > Maybe we could discuss how we can move the rootstock features missing > to live-helper in the long run?
Sure. > I want to avoid us doing long term duplication of effort if there is > no real distinct difference in the use cases addressed. Especially > since our linaro live-helper produces rootfs'es rather than images > now. Currently the main feature of rootstock is to be able to do cross arch builds, in a way you can quickly get a minimal rootfs. The ARM support was added just to be possible to use it the same way on your x86* machine, but avoiding Qemu. I agree that in long term we should focus more on improving live-helper, as it's commonly used for other purposes. Let's discuss more and see what are the missing bits of live-helper so we can work on this together. Cheers, -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
