Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-19 Thread peter green
Andrei POPESCU wrote: I'm aware of the above. I was thinking more of contributing patches back to Debian, I'm already trying to do that where appropriate. maybe even using alioth for your hosting, etc. Hosting of what? we don't use a vcs (maybe we should but we don't atm and i'm not convinced

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-19 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Mike Thompson writes: > I personally prefer to work with an installer, but unfortunately, with > the SD card media it can be very slow to use so 95% or more of users Ack, we have the same problem on openmoko. http://liw.fi/vmdebootstrap/ is an interesting alternative but I haven't had time to tes

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Mike Thompson
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > [CC'ing only because you did, JFYI, I am subscribed to debian-arm] > > FYI, the image works fine (Thanks!), but it is a bit too customized for > my taste[1]. Also, your GPG key is not singed by anyone (a trust path to > Debian would be grea

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread shawn
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 08:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > FYI, the image works fine (Thanks!), but it is a bit too customized > for > my taste[1]. Also, your GPG key is not singed by anyone (a trust path > to > Debian would be great). > The emdebian-archive-keyring is in debian[1] which is p

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[CC'ing only because you did, JFYI, I am subscribed to debian-arm] On Mi, 18 iul 12, 19:04:20, peter green wrote: > > >Did you consider to integrate this project tighter with Debian > I don't think it will ever be in debian proper for a couple of reasons > > Firstly I think it would be very diff

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread peter green
Loïc Minier wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012, peter green wrote: Having said that I would certainly appreciate it if debian could do things in a way that is more friendly to derivatives like raspbian. In particular it would be very nice to have the defaults for gcc set in a central place rather th

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Loïc Minier
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012, peter green wrote: > Having said that I would certainly appreciate it if debian could do > things in a way that is more friendly to derivatives like raspbian. > In particular it would be very nice to have the defaults for gcc > set in a central place rather than duplicated acr

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread shawn
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 20:27 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Did you consider to integrate this project tighter with Debian? > This will not happen. We already have enough ARM ports as it is. see: ARM port(s) update - Where are we now, what's coming? Speaker: Steve McIntyre http://ftp.acc.umu.

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread peter green
Anton Gladky wrote: Can one of Debian release goals (hardening buildflags) help with that? Not really, we need to ensure that the changes to CPU/FPU options apply to ALL code that is built on raspbian, not just to code built by well-behaved debian source packages. In order to do that we need

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Anton Gladky
2012/7/18 peter green : > >> Did you consider to integrate this project tighter with Debian > > I don't think it will ever be in debian proper for a couple of reasons > > Firstly I think it would be very difficult to get the powers that be to > approve an arm arm variant in debian that mainly tar

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread peter green
Did you consider to integrate this project tighter with Debian I don't think it will ever be in debian proper for a couple of reasons Firstly I think it would be very difficult to get the powers that be to approve an arm arm variant in debian that mainly targets one device (the impression I

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread peter green
Anton Gladky wrote: Thanks for the work! I have a question regarding repositories. As I understand, you have now your own one with recompiled binary-packages for Raspberry Pi. How will it further proceed with updating and adding new packages into this repository? Will they be automatically synce

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 17 iul 12, 18:00:47, Mike Thompson wrote: > A few months ago I asked some basic questions about the possibility of > a port of Debian armhf to the Raspberry Pi on this email list. I > received a number of thoughtful answers that helped set me on the path > to creating Raspbian -- an unoffic

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Anton Gladky
Thanks for the work! I have a question regarding repositories. As I understand, you have now your own one with recompiled binary-packages for Raspberry Pi. How will it further proceed with updating and adding new packages into this repository? Will they be automatically synced from Debian main arc

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread jtd
On Wednesday 18 July 2012 06:30:47 Mike Thompson wrote: > A few months ago I asked some basic questions about the possibility of > a port of Debian armhf to the Raspberry Pi on this email list. I > received a number of thoughtful answers that helped set me on the path > to creating Raspbian -- an

Re: The new armhf in town...

2012-07-18 Thread Jeremiah Foster
On Jul 18, 2012, at 03:00, Mike Thompson wrote: > A few months ago I asked some basic questions about the possibility of > a port of Debian armhf to the Raspberry Pi on this email list. I > received a number of thoughtful answers that helped set me on the path > to creating Raspbian -- an unoffi

The new armhf in town...

2012-07-17 Thread Mike Thompson
A few months ago I asked some basic questions about the possibility of a port of Debian armhf to the Raspberry Pi on this email list. I received a number of thoughtful answers that helped set me on the path to creating Raspbian -- an unofficial port of Debian Wheezy armhf for the Raspberry Pi. Wi