[Voyage-linux] The Road to 0.3

[Noah Dain]

On 7/17/06, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After the WorldCup and the completion of my part time project and
> studies, I now put my effort back to 0.3 development.  In these few
> days, something will happen to voyage unstable repository and the
> existing voyage-current.tar.gz as I will promote the "current/unstable"
> to Debian etch.

ooooh, ick.  is there something wrong with sarge?  The packages may be
"old" by a desktop user's standards, but for embedded work I think
they're just getting to the "properly aged" point.  Which would be the
point at which I don't have to update them every other day.

Shoot, most embedded distros still only offer 2.4 kernels.  But that's
a big reason why i went with voyage -- it was up to date as much as it
needed to be to do it's job, but not so old as to be stale and
lacking.

>
> 1. If you are running 0.2 distro and have been pointing the
> /etc/apt/sources.list to unstable repository, please stop doing so.
> Voyage unstable repository will include the kernel and some packages
> built under etch, which makes the package not installable on 0.2
> (because of package dependencies.)
> 2. voyage-current.tar.gz will be completely Debian etch based.  The
> first upload of etch based voyage-current.tar.gz would include:
>     - Trimmed etch, of course,
>     - ubuntu kernel 2.6.15, but will update to 2.6.17/18 before 0.3
> final release.
>     - CF size ~67MB, distro tarball ~27MB.
>     - booted with initrd and grub

grub roolz!  vive le grub!

>     - newly written installation/updating scripts (Thanks Bill's
> contribution)
>     - daily build
> 3. voyage-current.iso will be a live CD
>     - casper + squashfs + unionfs
>     - daily build
>     - proposed as a platform for netinst and pxeinstall
>     - ISO size ~32MB.
>
> As there will be a week before I upload the first etch Voyage, there is
> still time to discuss my "proposal". Please give your feedback or if you
> feel it uncomfortable, or suggest any other alternatives.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Punky

so I have a bunch of wrap boxes (pc-engines wrap1c) acting as waps
running voyage.  they're mounted up high, and not easy to get to.
They are also running voyage 0.3 downloaded on 02-jun-2006.  What are
your recommendations for this situation?


-- 
Noah Dain
"I don't want to make toys, I want to be a dentist!"