Kickstart groups

Revision as of 21:48, 24 January 2012

Mer uses package groups in kickstart files when creating images to define what functionality to provide.

The definition of these groups is in a Mer git repository.

They are added into the repository by the createrelease.sh script.

mer-core

Mer core contains a minimal set of packages which will allow a Mer system to boot to a multi-user, console level system without basic networking.

mer-connectivity

The connectivity group adds networking, bluetooth, wireless and telephony.

mer-graphics-common

This group adds fonts and the uxlauncher. It does not provide an X or Wayland server.

mer-minimal-xorg

For devices that do not have a graphics HA a non-accelerated fb/vesa X server is provided with software rendering for GL.

mer-core-utils

It is often useful to do basic administration and tests on a device, these packages provide things like an editor, diff, tar, ssh as well as ofono and connman tests.

mer-debugging

The debugging group brings in gdb and some other debug symbols