[Angstrom-devel] [RFC] Using narcissus as preferred way to build images for release

[Koen Kooi]

Hi,

In an effort to reduce the skillset needed to get involved into angstrom 
I'd like to propose this:

Narcissus[1] is the preferred way to build an image to be put in the 
download are for users.

The workflow would be:

1) go to http://amethyst.openembedded.net/~koen/narcissus/
2) select machine, packages and click 'build me'
3) downloading resulting image
4) test it
5) Convert it to the proper format (e.g. ubifs, jffs2, tar.bz2, ext2, 
installkit)
6) upload it to angstrom-distribution.org
7) Announce it

Note that step 5 can be scripted, but due to php/fakeroot limitations we 
can't do it all with narcissus. An option would be that narcissus spits 
out the scripts needed.

As the narcissus page points out, patches are welcome. If you are 
missing packages, send me a patch :)

So, what do you think about this proposal?

regards,

Koen

[1] http://amethyst.openembedded.net/~koen/narcissus/