[Freedombox-discuss] deb list for what is being included in freedom box

[Robert Teeter]

Nick - The Debian version for Raspberry PI has hardware floating point support in their kernel.  They support Python and PHP out of the box with .deb complied for the platform.  What I was looking for is a list of the Debian tools that were going to be used on the Freedom Box platform and if there were any source .deb packages available to support those tools.  I have downloaded with Git Extensions the privoxy, Plinth, Freedom Maker and Freedom Buddy so that I can build the programs on the Raspberry PI platform natively.   I was just hoping that the source packages existed so that they could be added to the standard build tree and made available for downloading and installing just a easy as on the Freedom Box Platform.  Thank you for the prompt reply as this has given me a direction to go.

Bob Teeter



________________________________
 From: Nick M. Daly <nick.m.daly at gmail.com>
To: Robert Teeter <bteeter2006 at yahoo.com>; "freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org" <freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org> 
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 2:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] deb list for what is being included in freedom box
 


Right now, there aren't .deb files for every project we use.  You can
build your own .deb for FreedomBox's Privoxy [0].  Adding .debs to the
rest of the projects, so that you can turn any box into a FreedomBox by
installing a couple packages is an incomplete release goal.  If you know
your way around packaging, you're welcome to help.

To build the package, just run:

$ make deb

If you're good with code and want to try building an entire disk image
From scratch, check out the Freedom Maker project [1].  The "shiny"
branch has a few more experimental enhancements than the main branch
does.  If you know what the Pi's architecture is (I looked, but couldn't
find it) should be possible to build an image for that architecture.
Copy the ``multistrap-configs/fbx-armel.conf`` file and edit it
appropriately for the Pi's architecture.  Then, run:

$ make ARCHITECTURE=(Pi's architecture) plugserver-image

No guarantee it'll work, but it'll sure try to.  THIS HAS NEVER BEEN
DONE BEFORE SO IT PROBABLY WON'T BOOT.  If it doesn't, we can try to
help you debug the issue, but we can't guarantee when we'll get it
working.

Nick

0: https://github.com/nickdaly/freedombox-privoxy

1: https://github.com/nickdaly/freedom-maker/tree/shiny
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