Re: [gentoo-embedded] GNAP update

[Ed W]

JoseAlberto wrote:
> GNAP is not discontinued just go slowly :)
>
> I have a updated version running localy, you must only be carefull with
> catalyst and genkernel versions.
>

I suspect that the core issue here is that there is no tinderbox server 
building stuff using a uclibc environment?  There are still quite a few 
packages which have problems and hence the dependencies seem complex?

Having said that I have just learned a massive amount from building some 
embedded targets using the "tiny gentoo" type approach where you can 
easily get into the chroot and see the problem.  I would be interested 
to back out from this position (custom build scripts) and push back up 
towards using catalyst to build my stages.  GNAP doesn't quite cut it 
for me in it's current guise, but it's not far off

I do think that gentoo is missing out on competing with the likes of 
open embedded or similar because there is this gap between huge live-cd 
and running catalyst manually (or manual building using chroot).  I 
haven't personally tried the likes of open-embedded, open-wrt, etc, but 
I *have* been extremely satisfied with gentoo for building images with 
very similar features. 

How can we bring gnap back to life as a more general purpose small 
custom distro building tool?  Unless I am missing something else, it's 
pretty straightforward to just enforce the exact package versions that 
you need to get a stable build?

Ed W
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