On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:08:46PM -0500, Tom Gall wrote:
All,
Our oneiric based images and hwpacks are shaping up in advance of the 11.10 based release. Already you can download from http://snapshots.linaro.org/oneiric.
Some important things you'll want to be aware of.
We'll be upgrading the version of live-build that we use to generate our images very soon. (today? tomorrow?) When we do so, it'll change the format of the root file system tarballs. This unfortunately will also mean you'll need to obtain a latest greatest version of linaro-media-create otherwise linaro-media-create will fail.
The change in format of the tarball also means that the rootfs tarballs will appear to be larger. Don't panic. Once installed with linaro-media-create the installed image sizes are close to what they were in natty. The reason for the extra size is live-build is putting a copy of all the installed .debs into the tarball.
Is that the only difference?
The fact that these are just tarballs is a useful rescue for people who want to try out linaro on an unsupported platform.
If inclusion of the .debs is the only change, that's broadly positive since people can reproduce or customise the rootfs more easily if those are captured in the download.
Cheers ---Dave