Topic: Software packaging

Hi folks -

Very cool idea, a friend and I mused about making a similar embedded arm device to sell for hacking, but our thoughts didn't extend even as far as an LCD and failed on being able to make them cheap enough, so this is pretty awesome to see.

However I work on embedded ARM for a living, I am wondering what your plans are for software packaging.  If you don't have it covered by automation, working with GPL stuff can be an asspain, not only must you be able to give sources on request for what you're shipping, but also for anything you shipped the last 3 years.

Busybox has a skeletal RPM parser, I added some stuff on top of it to allow basic RPM functions down on the embedded device, and a set of scripts that manage building crosscompiled packages and capturing the source and binary RPMs.

If you're all set with .deb or something never mind, otherwise maybe it will be a help assuming you run busybox already.

-Andy

BTW Hi to Bunnie!