From 18fd9158770533a7b7dda2dd908ad5ebcb26aea8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ngn <ngn@ngn.tf>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:01:56 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Added new post

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