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roberts:
The armv7 tcz repository is now open. http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/4.x/armv7/tcz/
You should find that the command line tool tce works as expected and is recommended.

First in is the import utility that I have been toying with.
Like the chicken and the egg, Import needed squashfs-tools and findutils in order to function.
So I built squashfs-tools and findutils and they are in the tcz repository.

Please carefully read the info file for import.tcz. I am using exports for both the master index and your local debian mirror.
The package you select will be in placed in the directory of the same name with the converted tcz and its dependencies.
Once tested you should copy them to your tce directory.

I used exports and a local directory so that import can be run on both a10Core and Core x86. You might find it faster and more convient to use Core x86.

I have tested this with just a few packages. Namely links, wireless-tools and wpasupplicant. They all work as expected. However, note that I expect that this tool is not a panacea. I am hoping that by an early release many will help by contributing patches and suggestions so that it can support many package conversions.

sbp:
Hi will it be possible to make something similar for the Raspberry??

roberts:
Yes. I have just begun.

tinycorelinuxrocks:
I'm a bit confused.  Does "import" import packages from Debian and Ubuntu?  Does it convert them to .tcz packages?

roberts:
Both piCore and a10Core are kernel and library compatible with raspbian and debian wheezy. Therefore it should be possible to repackage debs into tcz. That is the stated goal of import. To dynamically create tczs by repacking existing binaries. It has been over a month since I have even had time to revisit this area.

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