debxo 0.1 release

[Andres Salomon]

Thanks for all this!  I still need to sort through patches (and someone
reported a bug with 0.1 which is apparently leaving the dcon frozen..)



On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:48:41 +1000
James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> I've added some features to debxo aka xodist;
> 
> 1.  caching of the kernel package, so that it does not need to be
> downloaded every time a build is done,
> 
> 2.  a KDE build, which yields a 520Mb JFFS2 image containing a
> complete KDE environment,
> 
> 3.  an LXDE build, which yields a 189Mb JFFS2 image,
> 
> 4.  support for local package caching proxy using approx, or one of
> the other apt proxy mechanisms.
> 
> For example, to get Debian KDE onto an XO, here's how to do it:
> 
> % git clone http://dev.laptop.org/~quozl/xodist.git
> % sudo ./initchroot.sh --package-list kde.packages kde.root
> % sudo ./mkjffs2.sh kde.root kde.img
> % sudo mv kde.img.crc kde.crc
> 
> Copy the kde.img and kde.crc files to a thumb drive, boot an XO into
> OFW, then type:
> 
> 	copy-nand u:\kde.img
> 
> (This erases everything on the XO, you know.)
> 
> --
> 
> To use approx to cache packages,
> 
> a.  install the approx package,
> 
> 	% sudo aptitude install approx
> 
> b.  add the following lines to /etc/approx/approx.conf, and restart,
> 
> debian          http://http.us.debian.org/debian
> security        http://security.debian.org/
> 
> c.  follow the same steps but add the --mirror option to the
> initchroot.sh script, like this,
> 
> 	sudo ./initchroot.sh \
> 	    --package-list kde.packages \
>             --mirror http://localhost:9999/debian kde.root
> 
> As a result of this, the hundreds of megabytes of packages will be
> kept locally for re-use.
>