Re: poky-debian

Neil Williams <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Apr 2015 08:49:31 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.embedded
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On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 21:26:15 +0200
Jeremiah Foster <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Neil Williams <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 14:51:23 +0100
> > Wookey <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > +++ Neil Williams [2015-04-07 09:02 +0100]:
> > > An OE-based debian build has always been an interesting idea.
> > > Nice to see someone actually trying it.
> >
> > This came up during the early stages of Emdebian Crush - basically
> > the consensus amongst teams within Debian at the time is that such a
> > distribution would neither be OE nor Debian.
> 
> What is it that prevents a package built in one system from
> installing on the other?

Almost everything. Without a common package maintenance substructure,
no package installation can be deemed to be reliable. Whereas most
package formats are essentially archives of files to be unpacked, the
metadata, dependencies and associated support rely utterly on the
package maintenance system itself. A few minimal packages might work
but there is no guarantee that even a minimal working *system* can be
obtained. multistrap is in this situation - simply unpacking the
binaries is never enough, you do not get a usable Debian rootfs without
running all of the maintainer scripts which, in turn, rely on the
correct dependencies being resolved when building the list of binaries
to collect which relies on properly understanding the metadata of those
packages.

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Neil Williams
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