On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Christian Robottom Reis <k...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 01:37:29PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 7 October 2011 13:16, Fathi Boudra <fathi.bou...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> > On 7 October 2011 15:06, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> >> On 7 October 2011 11:23, Alexander Sack <a...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> >>> Also, it strikes me that we only use snapshots.linaro.org for ubuntu
>> >>
>> >> Eh? snapshots has more than just the ubuntu desktop images -- it
>> >> has nano, alip, hwpacks and all the rest. I think calling it
>> >> "ubuntu-build" would be rather confusing...
>> >
>> > These images are all Ubuntu based images.
>>
>> Yes, technically they're all based on Ubuntu, but I don't think
>> that most people who use the nano image (say) think of it as
>> primarily an "ubuntu image". Maybe I'm wrong...
>
> I think Peter is probably right, but somehow we need to resolve the
> issue that snapshots /only/ contains Ubuntu-based stuff at the moment
> (or, put differently, nothing Android-related).

Is this policy or just implementation?

I could see at some point in the very near future especially with the
absurdly small images that things might be less than "ubuntu" based...
take a system which is nothing more than busybox as a for instance.

>
> More fundamentally, is there really a reason why we shouldn't have /all/
> images downloadable from snapshots.linaro.org? I find it a bit unobvious
> that you'd go to android-build to download Android images. Is it only
> me?

I agree. Central one stop shopping!

> (PS: I really dislike URLs with hyphens in them! Remember
> bazaar-vcs.org? Yuck)
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