I maintain a small Linux distribution for a piece of hardware I develop and am considering changing things up a little.
Right now it’s a buildroot based image, I love everything about buildroot but the massive world of Debian binary packages is starting to look quite appealing. I spent quite a while trying to get python-pandas building and ended up just rootfs-overlaying the binaries in the buildroot rootfs overlay, bleh. My customers also would like to apt-install stuff.
My question is: is there a nice hybrid between buildroot and a debstrap based system? Ideally having buildroot...
checkout/build uboot
checkout/build linux
do a debstrap based on a manifest for the rootfs
apply rootfs overlay
build my final SD card image
The other option is to completely ditch bu…
I maintain a small Linux distribution for a piece of hardware I develop and am considering changing things up a little.
Right now it’s a buildroot based image, I love everything about buildroot but the massive world of Debian binary packages is starting to look quite appealing. I spent quite a while trying to get python-pandas building and ended up just rootfs-overlaying the binaries in the buildroot rootfs overlay, bleh. My customers also would like to apt-install stuff.
My question is: is there a nice hybrid between buildroot and a debstrap based system? Ideally having buildroot...
checkout/build uboot
checkout/build linux
do a debstrap based on a manifest for the rootfs
apply rootfs overlay
build my final SD card image
The other option is to completely ditch buildroot and go for a custom assembled OS with build scripts. Any advice appreciated :)