Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

Oh, yes, the same about the encryption opening boot process.
IIRC rc or rc.d could not be distributed, only a diff can.
Bur are these copyright questions still really up to date?
I mean, all that stuff is old and sharing it doesn't repesent a loss risk or a concurrence for Nokia any more. Or?

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

Here is the link to Sulu's 2021 Debian chroot image!

Edit: MD5SUM: 642c818b5b4a68982596849eb79c8385

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

Wait, what kernel it runs?
Is it a modern Debian for ED?

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

I have started to gather info now. At the moment it seems that our fellow member nonsuch has done a really remarkable work with his N900 page:

https://dt.iki.fi/nokia-n900-resurrect

https://dt.iki.fi/nokia-n900-resurrect-applications

https://dt.iki.fi/nokia-n900-resurrect-tweak

I think should really be the starting point. I am not sure what can be done before flashing/cloning the perfect setup and what is needed to run with automated scripts (sdcard and other partitioning and swap setups and crypts etc.)

Maybe nonsuch could help after there is some kind of a plan ready.

Then there are of course these which do not include much more info than what nonsuch has gathered to his pages:

https://wiki.maemo.org/N900_The_Perfect_Setup

https://wiki.maemo.org/N900_The_Perf.../alternative-1

I am trying to gather instructions and files (which I know of) shared throughout the forum and then make layout of the idea for people to comment.

I am waiting for that commenting part 'cause I assume opinions differ what should be in and what should not. Maybe this could be the last quarrel, the great one that ruined everything!

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

@dredlok706

No it is not. That is impossible. It is just updated image of what he has shared before. Haven't yet tried it but I will soon.

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

Maybe more infos where originally posted:
https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34550&page=332

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

No.

Easy Debian is a chroot, which means it runs on top of the Maemo host system, using the same kernel.
This is also the reason why it isn't and can't be a modern Debian. This is Debian Jessie, which fell out of security support in June 2020.
Between Jessie and Stretch there has been a massive rewrite of the glibc code, and while it was possible to get the former running on kernel 2.6.2x with only slight modifications, it isn't possible to run the latter on a kernel older than kernel 3.2. (Or, at least it's way out of my league to figure out what would have to be done to make a newer glibc work on such an old kernel.)

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

To expand now I have had some sleep...
I believe there are licensing issues and it's a lot deeper than just Nokia. People collaborated to the Maemo project with Nokia and I am pretty sure some of those licenses are to not redistribute.
As I say the CSSU team at the time would have made a flashable CSSU image back then if it was allowed. Hence why you install it like an extras package.
Really many of these things you want to address should be "fixed" in their own software separately not bundled in some meta package like fixing script. I would be best to contribute to the packages themselves, maybe make a lists of what need to be done and take each package in extras at a time.

The concept has been around before, it's logical to want to have some way to reflash and put everything you want back as it was. These are where those perfect setup wikis appeared from years ago. Issue is everyone uses there device differently there are some packages you want to avoid or conflict with what you need. Also it's old more and more is breaking overtime and fixes are often short term this is why more focus has been put on Leste.

Many had hoped for a true successor by now but alas it's looking more like a Concorde moment.

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

Thanks

P.S. How can I update repo in Jessie? Is it actual?
Or do I need to use archive.debian.org?

And I don't have sudo in Jessie, and I don't know root password :confused:

Discovered, just need to use chroot....

And default repo still works

Re: Fremantle custom builds for 2022
 

Things like YouTube-dl (or yt-dlp) or fixing cutetube belong in their own package. Best path would be to update packages and release any system related packages as part of a new CSSU release.