Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Current Status (and Wiki Performance)

[Sam Geeraerts]

Op Sat, 3 Sep 2016 00:24:18 +0200
schreef Paul Boddie <address@hidden>:

> OK, but as I understand it, then, gNewSense must have been supporting
> mipsel instead of mips64el and thus the distribution worked on the
> Ben. (My impression is that mips64el is a fairly new thing in Debian.)

Indeed.

> I don't know. The Ingenic SoCs have been used in a variety of
> devices, but I'm not sure how available those devices are now. The
> GCW-Zero is perhaps the most well-known, but it seems to suffer
> availability problems, although there does seem to be some kind of
> community around it and other devices.

I'm guessing they're not really our target audience.

> Where should I start looking if I want to derive a gNewSense variant
> from Debian for the purposes of evaluating the feasibility of my
> little project? I did find this...
> 
> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/gnewsense/
> 
> ...but it seems to be down at present.

bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.nongnu.org/gnewsense/debderiver/

That's what we use to derive from Debian. It's mostly a frontend for
reprepro. (Re-)building packages is done separately.