X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/a59c9db6d3abe0fabc951aa54ef821f7d75ae5f1..e0bf21fad87dba50f6e954a5313a3028f79752d4:/blog/archive/2013/10/index.html diff --git a/blog/archive/2013/10/index.html b/blog/archive/2013/10/index.html index 75658a9686..0276d46ecc 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2013/10/index.html +++ b/blog/archive/2013/10/index.html @@ -36,17 +36,19 @@ create a image file, add a partition table, mount it and run debootstrap in the mounted directory to create a Debian system on a stick. Yesterday, I decided to try to teach it how to make images for Raspberry Pi, as part -of a plan to simplify the build system for the FreedomBox project. -The FreedomBox project already uses vmdebootstrap for the virtualbox -images, but its current build system made multistrap based system for -Dreamplug images, and it is lacking support for Raspberry Pi.

+of a plan to simplify the build system for +the FreedomBox +project. The FreedomBox project already uses vmdebootstrap for +the virtualbox images, but its current build system made multistrap +based system for Dreamplug images, and it is lacking support for +Raspberry Pi.

Armed with the knowledge on how to build "foreign" (aka non-native architecture) chroots for Raspberry Pi, I dived into the vmdebootstrap code and adjusted it to be able to build armel images on my amd64 Debian laptop. I ended up giving vmdebootstrap five new options, allowing me to replicate the image creation process I use to make -Debian +Debian Jessie based mesh node images for the Raspberry Pi. First, the --foreign /path/to/binfm_handler option tell vmdebootstrap to call debootstrap with --foreign and to copy the handler into the @@ -601,6 +603,8 @@ me know. :)

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