Ubuntu 20.04 rootfs image focal-updates and focal-securtiy added.

I have dedicated my free time this Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend to firing up my Beaglebone Blue with Ubuntu 20.04 Focal-Fossa so I can use it with ROS2 Foxy.

I have one major request for rootfs image: add the configuration for the focal-updates and focal-security pools to the /etc/apt/sources.d configuration file. Both in the image and in the image-builder configuration. Now that I think of it I will work out how to send a change to gihub beagleboard/image-builder later.

When I did that apt update && apt dist-upgrade reported a upgrade of 189 upgraded, 8 newly installed packages. That is only 2.5 years of updates :astonished:.

And (most-important to me :slight_smile: ) ca-certificates-java configured properly which I wanted for a ROS2 foxy install.

Here is my current sources.list file:

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal main universe multiverse
#deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal main universe multiverse

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-backports main universe multiverse
#deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal main universe multiverse

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-updates main universe multiverse
#deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal main universe multiverse

#Kernel source (repos.rcn-ee.com) : https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee
#
#git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee
#cd ./linux-stable-rcn-ee
#git checkout `uname -r` -b tmp

deb [arch=armhf signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rcn-ee-archive-keyring.gpg] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/ubuntu/ focal main
#deb-src [arch=armhf signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rcn-ee-archive-keyring.gpg] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/ubuntu/ focal main

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-security main
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-security universe
deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal-security multiverse
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interesting… that use to be all that was required…

deb http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal main universe multiverse
#deb-src http://ports.ubuntu.com/ focal main universe multiverse

#Kernel source (repos.rcn-ee.com) : https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee
#
#git clone https://github.com/RobertCNelson/linux-stable-rcn-ee
#cd ./linux-stable-rcn-ee
#git checkout `uname -r` -b tmp

deb [arch=armhf signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rcn-ee-archive-keyring.gpg] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/ubuntu/ focal main
#deb-src [arch=armhf signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rcn-ee-archive-keyring.gpg] http://repos.rcn-ee.com/ubuntu/ focal main

I’ll add these two…

focal

Edit, i love how they install nag-ware…

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
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0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Need to neuter that message…

Edit 2: updated daily images with these changes…

https://rcn-ee.net/rootfs/ubuntu-armhf-focal-minimal/2022-10-09/

Regards,

Thanks for your post! Were you able to get ROS2 Foxy working on your BeagleBoneBlue?