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== Organizational ==
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"Mer" is an experimental project, where an attempt of "reconstructing" the Maemo platform is done, based on the proposal on http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Reconstructed. Mer means ocean in french, "more" in danish, etc..
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=== Launchpad page ===
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== Mer is back ==


http://launchpad.net/m-r
Please visit http://www.merproject.org to learn more about these news.


=== Platforms targeted ===
We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a [http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=Mer web based IRC client])


* hasty-armv5el
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* hasty-armv5el-vfp
* hasty-armv6el-vfp
* jaunty-armel
* jaunty-i386
 
=== Repositories and branches ===
 
Repositories at http://trac.tspre.org/mer/<arch>
 
* stable - stable release, packages are througly tested and work on all platforms
* testing - where packages that build on all platforms and has passed general testing
* unstable - where built packages are entered at first, packages may not be same on all platforms.
=== Branching from Maemo packages ===
 
* get bzr-svn, bzr
* bzr branch <svn-url>
* bzr push bzr+ssh://username@bazaar.launchpad.net/~username/m-r/<package name>
 
=== Builder system ===
 
Status: http://merbuilder.jaiku.com
 
Requests: http://jaiku.com/channel/merbuilder
 
Authorized users (identified by their login) can ask builder by sending <platform regexp> <bzr branch url> to start building on archs matching the platform regexp. For example, jaunty-* lp:~carsten-munk/m-r/glib
 
=== Build system ===
 
* beagle1: BeagleBoard handling source, hasty-{armv5el,armv5el-vfp,armv6el-vfp}, jaunty-armel. Location: Århus, DK
 
* dell1: pentium4 handling jaunty-i386. Location: Århus, DK
 
== System base consists of (with dependancies) ==
 
* Minbase from 'platform'
* + wget, apt-utils, udev, bash, dash, module-init-tools, findutils, gzip, hostname, ifupdown, net-tools, procps, sed, tar, coreutils, grep, mount, bsdutils, debianutils, vim-tiny, mawk, mktemp, sysvutils, iputils-ping, psmisc, time, login, passwd, udhcpc, wide-dhcpv6-client
* clinkc0, dbus, xorg-xserver, bluez-utils, dosfstools gconf2 hal libgupnp-1.0-0 libsmbclient mtools pulseaudio samba-common
*
 
== Image goals to build using Mer ==
 
* N8x0 platform QEMU image
* Example "Vendor" image, N8x0 platform with HW support (wifi, GPS, Adobe Flash, gstreamer codecs), scripts for building
* x86 images (tar.gz)
* Pandora images

Latest revision as of 22:50, 3 June 2012

Mer
An open, community-led, Linux distribution for mobile devices

Mer is back

Please visit http://www.merproject.org to learn more about these news.

We're hanging out on #mer on FreeNode IRC (irc.freenode.net) if you would like to discuss Mer (here's a web based IRC client)