[oe-issues] [Bug 2919] Create a distro for gumstix

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http://bugs.openembedded.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2919





--- Comment #11 from Craig Hughes <craig at gumstix.com>  2007-09-04 23:27:20 ---
(In reply to comment #9)

> Now you're confusing distro and images

Perhaps. To my mind "distro" means "if you get an ipkg for this distro and your
ARCH, it'll work"; whereas "image" means "give me a rootfs with the following
list of packages pre-installed in it".  I there's a repository somewhere of
pre-built angstrom arm ipkgs, then my users won't be able to say that those
ipkgs will work on their system, since they won't know if those ipkgs use glibc
or uclibc.  They won't know if there's some dependency on an older version of
udev which they can't downgrade because that'll break some gumstix
configuration script or something.  In order to provide stability and
ease-of-use to gumstix users, I pretty much *need* to have a gumstix distro.

> The past shows that adding your own distro just leads to bitrot (see how bad
> the gmustix (no, that isn't a typo) distro has bitrotted the last year.

I'm not sure the comparison is quite right here.  gmustix, looking at it, was
the project of some student who perhaps moved onto another project (or
graduated?).  the gumstix distro I'm talking about would be a core business
concern for gumstix the company, and as long as gumstix stays in business, we'd
have someone working on maintaining it.  And it's not really a whole separate
distro.  It's like a distro-lite where it's basically taking advantange of all
the hard work in angstrom, but just tweaking things a little bit here and there
to provide stability and ease of use for gumstix users.


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