[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Debian-Maemo interoperability

[From: Martin Guy]

  I am actually bootstrapping the ARM EABI port of Debian, by updating
and augmenting Maemo development rootfs into a Debian build system
capable of compiling Debian etch packages from source. The other
Debian ARM EABI initiatives: Koen Kooi's Angstrom distro and Riku
Voipio's experimental repository of armel packages have been a great
help in doing this.
  As distributed, the Maemo-development-rootfs is pretty bare. It
doesn't even have "grep" for heaven's sake, which it itself needs to
be able to install some other packages, and the best console-based
text editor available is "sed" :-/

   I don't have a Nokia 770, so I can't make any guarantees about this
stuff not breaking your system and making it totally unusable.
   I would have recommended just picking the packages out one by one
and installing them with "dpkg -i", but I had to update many of the
libraries and add many others that were missing, so I guess that would
be pretty tedious.
   Before I announce this EXPERIMENTAL repository I will try to make
sure that the Maemo development rootfs can just be updated to Debian
etch by adding a line to /etc/apt/sources.list and saying "apt-get
update; apt-get upgrade" without breaking anything on the rootfs. If
that works, it may work on regular maemo-2.* systems too.

Bless

    M