[oe] Best way to tune a distro and to build a toolchain for it

[Cliff Brake]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Valentin Longchamp
<valentin.longchamp at epfl.ch> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have designed a processor board in our laboratory that we are going to
> use to control our robots for experiments. The board is now supported in OE
> (mx31moboard machine) and I am very happy to be able to build a Linux distro
> for our board thank to OE.
>
> Until now I have used the Angstrom distro with success. Now since my use is
> mostly going to be for a robot with no screen (and of course no PIM/agenda,
> games and these kinds of things) I have always built a console-image.
> However now I would like to add some packages by default in the images that
> I want to build for our robot (for instance hal is needed by one of our
> softs, I would like it to be included by default).
>
> I could do this by adding these packages in the MACHINE_EXTRA_RDEPENDS
> variable in the machine config file, but I think this is more a distro
> question.
>
> To summarize: what would be the best way to create a "robotic version" of
> angstrom in OE ?

Define a custom image: http://bec-systems.com/web/content/view/79/9/

Cliff

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