Building custom spins interactively for embedded targets

[Ilyes Gouta]

Actually, I intend to setup an NFS filesystem that the Beagleboard will
access through Ethernet. All what I need is to have the selected Fedora
packages cross-compiled to the OMAP/ARM architecture. I want to inherit the
structure, the packaging, the organization of Fedora and make it available
for my embedded system.

Regards,
Ilyes Gouta.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been looking recently for a piece of software that would allow me
> > to build a custom, Fedora based distribution for an embedded system.
> > Basically I would like the tool to:
> >
> > 1. Select yum meta-packages and gradually populate my distribution (fine
> > grained selection) from the standard repositories.
> > 2. The tool would automatically pull-in the dependencies
> > 3. Visualize at any moment the associated rpm packages that I'm going to
> > install (and cross-compile) on my target
> > 4. Identify and determine the srpms that I have to cross-compile to my
> > target
> > 5. Create the basic build system environment for the cross-compilation,
> > that's download the srpms to a location and provide a basic rpm
> > repackaging scripts.
> > 6. GUI based, if possible
> >
> > Do you know if such a magic tool exists? It would be really awesome..
> > I'd like to prepare a Fedora environment for my Beagleboard, which is an
> > OMAP, ARM based board.
>
> Not to poke at the host [this is a Fedora development list], but why?  It
> would seem that there are better ways to create the embedded environment.
> Your Beagle board has limited RAM and at best a small SD card - hardly the
> place for even the smallest Fedora installation.
>
> Fedora, as a distribution, isn't really targeted to such a job.
> There are other tools, such as PTXdist, much better set up for this.
>
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