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 1GC3dc-0005M7-63 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:15:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7D0DrcD018502; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:13:53 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7D0DqCu015139 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2006 00:13:52 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id s2so550413uge for ; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:13:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tONuMh4VG3n/G8asqEGo2FcFh3cAI3Qc5S6c4n8lAJ4nmM8b7akxujCnjCFoYlDKB5beob1WTzBTDuABsVZjiEOlcYBbXN+K/V66Lhq3pMpU4qgHf6IWWP4xx1NsXgC1sjT069sYd6qwXE/t8F/xkaM9oJKZBR8cuqGnZhB+2EI= Received: by 10.66.216.6 with SMTP id o6mr6014875ugg; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.225.19 with HTTP; Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:13:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:13:52 -0400 From: "Kevin Winter" To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] frontend needed to make Gentoo/embedded a viability In-Reply-To: <200608121950.39655.vapier@gentoo.org> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200608121950.39655.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: f7430183-10cb-4121-9fe1-b5f71ac4e19b X-Archives-Hash: a3d8dd49d2b7869cf51d83e19d305e39 On 8/12/06, 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 > > 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 ... > > what do you guys think ? stupid idea ? good idea waiting for a champion ? > -mike I think thats an excellent idea. The current approach seems to use ROOT= in order to install packages. I really like the idea of a gentoo version of uclibc and such, almost like the linux kernel. I'm currently planning to use embedded gentoo on an embedded project (x86 board though), and a menu-driven selection of optional packages would greatly simplify the process of generating new images. Just my non-developer two cents. ~Kevin -- Open Source, Open Mind -- gentoo-embedded@gentoo.org mailing list