On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 09:37 -0500, Robert Nelson wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Guilherme Salgado
> <guilherme.salg...@linaro.org> wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Several people have suggested that we should start providing prebuilt
> > Linaro images for those who can't/won't install and run
> > linaro-media-create (or any other tool that they have to install in
> > order to generate an image), so we're going to discuss that at LDS.  If
> > you know of anybody who can't/won't install l-m-c, I'd like to know more
> > about it, so I'd appreciate if you could answer the questions or provide
> > us with some user stories:
> >
> >  https://wiki.linaro.org/Platform/Infrastructure/Specs/PrebuiltImages
> 
> Why can't you guys ship the script within the generic image? Then the
> user doesn't have to install anything external, and it can run on more
> platforms then just the latest Ubuntu 11.x.

You mean include it in the Linaro image?  We could do that, but after
you flash the Linaro image l-m-c is only an 'apt-get install' away as
it's in the Ubuntu archives since Lucid.

> I know it's been completely rewritten so it's hard to compare directly
> anymore to my script, but my script currently supports generating sd
> cards in ubuntu/debian/fedora/gentoo (well those are atleast tested..)

We rewrote it completely in python and now it's no longer a single
script file, but it should still run on other distros as long as the
dependencies are installed.

If you'd like to see what it looks now, it's in
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~linaro-image-tools/linaro-image-tools/trunk/files

Cheers,

-- 
Guilherme Salgado <https://launchpad.net/~salgado>

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