thinstation / thinstation

A framework for making thin and light Linux based images for x86 based machines and thinclients.

ThinStation

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This env was created for you by Donald A. Cupp Jr. from Crux and ThinStation

ThinStation itself has many many many contributors, but much thanx goes out to Mike Eriksen, Trevor Batley, Miles Roper and Marcos Amorim

NEWS: All boot images except grub have been deprecated.

Work To Do / Work in Progress: mail to developer list if you can help

• We could really use some help on the documentation. A lot has changed since 2.2, and I am afraid the documentation has not kept up. Please create a wiki account and help others with your knowledge.

Note that several modules have been moved inside the kernel

Installation

Just run ./setup_chroot. The first time this is run, it will expand all binary packages into the right place. It will then populate all the packages that build will use to make images. Afterwards, it will just start the chroot session.

Running

You will need to make sure you are in the chroot Development Environment by running ./setup-chroot. You should then be able to cd /build and run ./build to start making images. Edit build.conf and thinstation.conf.buildtime to make changes

Compiling

First off, this is a very advanced and not required at all to use ThinStation.

The CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS can be changed by editing /ts/etc/pkgmk.conf and then exiting and re-entering the chroot. If you change the flags, you might want to rebuild all installed packages with rebuild-all command. You can make a single package like this prt-get depinst [Package Name] or update it with prt-get update [Package name]. You can remove a package with prt-get remove [Package Name]. You can also go to the actual port directory like cd /ts/ports/components/busybox-TS and then do pkgmk -kw (keep work) if you want to examine the working compile and perhaps edit a .config file. If you upgrade a version or change a .config, you will need to run pkgmk -um to update md5 checksums on source files. If the file layout changes, you will need to run pkgmk -uf to update the footprint of the results.

Ports

The available ports directories can be changed by editing /ts/etc/prt-get.conf and then exiting and re-entering chroot. A "Generic" Pkgfile is located in /ts/ports. Copy this file into your new port directory and rename to Pkgfile. You can update the official crux ports with ports -u and then do a prt-get sysup to update all packages in chroot. Other ports may be availabe, but should only be used as a template from http://crux.nu/portdb/. Doing an update will sometimes give undesired results. Be patient and read the log files for package builds.(/var/log/pkgbuild)

Updating ThinStation

The update command will read a .dna file and extract the latest and greatest from compressed binary packages into the working TS packages folder.

Source

Some package sources were not available in any crux port. In those instances, I made my own port, BUT I did not install the resulting binaries into the chroot, but rather jailed them in /ts/components. Ports where I could not locate the source anywhere else but in the old TS chroot are in /ts/ports/static-source. You could compile all static source packages with a line like:

for pkg in `ls --color=never /ts/ports/static-source/`; do
    prt-get install $pkg
done

This will also work with the components directory.

WARNING

Never edit the ports in /usr/ports/. You will likely lose your work. If you need to edit a port, bring it into the /ts/ports/(something appt) directory and make your own package. Everything else you might need is in /ts/TS_ENVand /ts/bin