Progress of the base repo

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.

Update (22/12/23): Init system has been changed to systemd

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.