Re: [Ltib] Idea: Binary lpp pool?

[Svein Seldal]

Mike Goins wrote:
> I would love a local staging area for prebuilt rpms since all our
> developers will be using identical build systems.   Is there a way to
> get ltib to check in the way it does for %ppp_url and %gpp_url in
> .ltibrc for prebuilt binaries?   If it is not already there there then
> I would definitely add it myself.

I agree. And we will make a similar patch for ltib with the same 
functionality. Maybe we should team up, even if this doesn't end up in 
the official ltib?

Another reason for us to have a prebuilt staging area is because it can 
then be part of our internal binary release process. We are going to 
make a number of different products based on the same HW, and all of 
these products will have different package composition.

I am considering to add support of opkg which is a lightweight, small 
footprint deb packaging system for embedded linux. This way you can add 
or remove packages from the running embedded linux on the fly. However, 
I'm not sure how this fits into the LTIB picture yet. I'll have to 
investigate a little more.

BTW: I have been using opkg with great success in Linksys Linux routers 
(which is a 200MHz Mips with 16Mb RAM and 4Mb flash system), so I know 
it works for small embedded systems. The OpenWrt (http://openwrt.org/) 
is using this system.


- Svein