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

[Valentin Longchamp]

Thank you for your answer Koen.

Koen Kooi wrote:
> On 17-12-08 15:08, Valentin Longchamp wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> No, it's image question. Stuff that goes into an image is an image 
> question. I have multiple devices without a screen and use angstrom on 
> it without troubles. There's absolutely no need for yet another distro.

OK. Sorry, there are still some concepts in OE that are a little bit 
opaque to me. But I agree, it's definitely an image question. I want an 
image that would fit my needs.

> 
>> To summarize: what would be the best way to create a "robotic version"
>> of angstrom in OE ?
> 
> Create tasks and images for it. There's absolutely no need for yet 
> another distro.
> 

Of course I don't want to create yet another distro. That's what I meant 
by "tuning". But the correct concepts were tasks and an image for for 
this task.

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