From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GC5t5-0000gb-3k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:39:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7D2cdPA021191; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:38:39 GMT Received: from duke.math.cinvestav.mx (duke.math.cinvestav.mx [148.247.14.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7D2cbCE015217 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 02:38:38 GMT Received: from dukebook.lan (unknown [201.144.25.101]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by duke.math.cinvestav.mx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BEE10163 for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:38:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 21:38:32 -0500 From: Yuri Vasilevski To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] frontend needed to make Gentoo/embedded a viability Message-ID: <20060812213832.48e03f9a@dukebook.lan> In-Reply-To: <200608121950.39655.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <200608121950.39655.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: dab44994-d159-4a37-baf2-bdf05b1fa9b8 X-Archives-Hash: 5011f39a02069c8b4976b6a3887ef9d8 Hi, On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 19:50:39 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > so i was tooling along the road thinking about what it would take for > people to sit down and use Gentoo/embedded for the target ... > currently we have misc ways of doing this by hand (install > mask/etc...), but it tends to be error prone and it requires the end > user to know more than they should about the portage environment > > what would help here is a frontend ... something like uClinux or Open > Embedded where a menu system allows the user to select the packages > to install into the target image and when they're done, they simply > type 'make' ... wait a bit and they're left with images that they can > take and flash onto the target board The way I see this, is that this is covered by buildroot, so it would be duplicating things at some level to do this with gentoo. > so really, a friendly frontend for the user to select the > characteristics of the system, and then a backend to take that config > and use emerge to build everything and generate an image ... would > make it easy to create stock board descriptions too ... But I think it would be really nice if we could teach catalyst to generate embedded images from some "board" spec files. And once this works, a fancy spec file editor with a nice gui could be written if needed. > what do you guys think ? stupid idea ? good idea waiting for a > champion ? -mike Yuri. -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list