[oe] [RFC][ANNOUNCE] VDR available as package in OpenEmbedded and in Ångström

[Paul Menzel]

Dear OE developers,


I like to make an announcement on the VDR list. Could you please check
my draft for it, that I did not mess up any terminology (framework,
distribution) and that I gave correct credit to everyone.

If you would change something to promote OpenEmbedded or the embedded
world better or from a different point of view please tell me.


Thanks and sorry to bother you with this,

Paul

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Dear VDR users,


VDR 1.7.10 is now also available as a package in OpenEmbedded (OE), a
build framework for embedded Linux [1][2]. I thank Henning Heinold who
did most of the work to get VDR included and the OE developers to answer
my questions on the openembedded-devel mailing list [3].

Around 30 hours ago, Koen Kooi added VDR also to Ångström [4][5][6], a
distribution using OE heavily.

With `opkg install vdr` it is now as easy as on other systems to install
VDR and get it running on embedded devices which because of their energy
efficiency and form factors, e. g. BeagleBoard [7], are predestined for
use as a server.

The next steps are going to be to improve the packaging in OE and to
send some patches to upstream VDR to adapt it for cross compilation [8].

As always especially the developers do not have much time, so help with
testing and writing patches is very welcomed.

Instructions will also be posted in the VDR Wiki [9] on how to get this
running.


Thanks again to everyone and happy testing,

Paul


[1] http://www.openembedded.org/
[2] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/tree/recipes/vdr/
[3] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
[4] http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/
[5] http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/repo/?pkgname=vdr
[6] http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded/commit/?id=dfa0d36cac88fd6f3a451cc7bc9433629f4a2df00
[7] http://beagleboard.org/
[8] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/openembedded-devel/2010-January/016213.html
[9] http://www.linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page
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