Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Orchid(mipsel-port) milestone

[avr]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 11:24:59AM +0800, Arthur Webkid wrote:
> Hi Avr
> 
> May I ask what is the different between your Orchid project from that of
> "GNewSenseToMIPS"? I am confused as I see both projects aim to port
> gNewSense to the MIPS platform of free software only computers from
> Lemote.

There was some discussion of whether to base the port on debian or ubuntu,
with debian being the "easy" way.
It is meant to show that, from a software compatibility point of view, a
mainly ubuntu port is at least feasible, thereby preventing a big difference
between x86 and mips versions of gNewSense.

So all in all it's a proof of concept for an approach of the
port; a possible implementation of gNewSense on mips.

        friendly,
        Andreas

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --
> Arthur Webkid
> 
> 於 四，2009-01-15 於 18:50 +0100，avr 提到：
> > Hi,
> > 
> > my Orchid project (http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/gNewSenseOrchid)
> > now has a trivial[1] repository for gnewsense-mipsel.
> > 
> > The repository is still rough, but should be enough to debootstrap from.
> > Having a functional debootstrap is needed (to my understanding) for 
> > wanna-build/buildd to automatically rebuild packages. There are probably 
> > others on the list with experience on how to setup and maintain a
> > buildd and setting up a "real" repository that wil hold a fully-fledged 
> > mipsel-distribution.
> > 
> > How to do it:
> > 
> > get the file http://mirror.softwarelibre.nl/orchid/orchid.debootstrap and 
> > move
> > it to /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/orchid
> > 
> > #debootstrap orchid orchid
> > 
> > will now create a gnewsense-mipsel distribution in de directory "orchid" 
> > that you
> > can chroot into.
> > 
> > It is still a far cry from a complete and tested gnewsense-mips port, but 
> > hopefully
> > it provides a good point to start further development from.
> > 
> >     friendly,
> >     Andreas
> > 
> > 1. as opposed to "automatic" 
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.en.html
> > 
> > 
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