emdebian

'Update on Embedded Debian tools'

Neil Williams

DebConf7

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Problems of embedded platforms outside Debian
2. Emdebian
The main benefits of Debian for Emdebian.
3. History
History of Emdebian
Technical challenges
4. The Composite Method
Summary of the composite method
How each packaging method is handled
Patch sequencing
emdebian patch files
Using emdebian-tools
emsource and Subversion
5. Package Management
6. Workflow patterns in Emdebian
7. Current problems
How to make your packages easier to emdebianise
Future

List of Figures

5.1. Normal Debian package management
5.2. Emdebian package management
6.1. Debian and Emdebian workflows.

List of Examples

4.1. Example session with emsource