2023-12-15 19:01:56 +00:00
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After about a week of reading LFS, packaging and
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fixing the package management tools, Matter `base` repository
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now has 85 packages. Most of them are, well, base
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build and installation tools that you will almost %100
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need for installing Matter or building packages.
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And by the end of this week, I think I might actualy be
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able to boot into a Matterlinux system!
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## More about the base repo
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Most of the packages are packaged with the instructions from
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LFS and BLFS (version 12.0). However instead of using Sysvinit,
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2023-12-22 20:06:07 +00:00
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~~I decided to go with dinit as the init system.~~
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2023-12-22 20:06:07 +00:00
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~~There are couple of reasons for that. First of all sysvinit
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does not offer an easy way of managing services and it's
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not user friendly at all. Dinit offers a systemd like command-line
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interface as well as an easy-to-use service manager.~~
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**Update (22/12/23)**: Init system has been changed to systemd
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## Changes to the package management system
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While I made simple changes to the `mp-build` script and `mp`,
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the biggest change was made to the `mp-repo`, I rewrote it
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in python to offer a more powerful command-line interface.
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## What is next?
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After making sure that system is bootable, I may start working on the
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`desktop` repo and the wiki. I don't want to promise a release date,
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as I also have other projects in my schedule, so I may abandon Matter
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for couple of weeks.
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I guess that's all for now, see you in the next post.
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