Re: GSoC Introduction

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 08:42:41PM +1200, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Over the next few months I will be working on a system that will let
>> NetBSD developers build very small installations of NetBSD without
>> having to roll their own scripts every time. The NetBSD sourceforge
>> project page for this is
>> http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/miniaturise/. My general goal
>> for this is that building an image for an embedded system shouldn't be
>> any more difficult than building a kernel.
>>
>> I expect that I'll be asking a few questions about the NetBSD build
>> system over the next few weeks, and since I expect to be using syspkgs
>> to some extent, I've already got some questions queued up for tech-pkg.
>
> Welcome, Lloyd, we've been looking forward to this project.
>
> I'd suggest you get your coffee, and then open the floodgates on your
> question silo.
>

Agreed!  I've been looking forward to customized systems with build.sh
for a while now.

./build.sh img=mycrunch embedimgkernel=mykern = super easy embedded system!  :)