Couple questions about the ayufan releases

[Mrfixit2001]

Recently performed a dist-upgrade to the newest stretch 0.6.3 release from yesterday and happy to report successful HDMI output   I just have two lingering questions... 

1- I started with an earlier ayufan release, and I notice each release is accompanied with downloadable Debian packages on github, such as linux-headers, Linux-firmware, Linux-libc... are all of these included in each release of the stretch image by default and will they be auto updated with the dist-upgrade, or should I be manually downloading and installing these?

2 - Does this build support reading boot settings from a custom /boot/config.txt? It's not there by default, and I'm not sure that the settings I'm putting in that file I created are having any effect, so I wanted to check if they are supposed to be getting applied or if there's somewhere else I should be changing  HDMI settings and other boot configurations. 

Thanks in advance for any replies, and thanks ayufan for the awesome work.

[xalius]

I think for 1- ayufan is the one to answer the question, but I believe 0.6.x pre-release images do not get automatic package upgrades, as for 2- config.txt is entirely RPi specific or even specific to your flavour of OS image you run. I prefer and promote using on-board linux mechanisms wherever possible - hardware configuration changes via devicetree (overlays) for example.

[Mrfixit2001]

Thanks for the quick reply! Hopefully ayufan comments back on when someone should and should not manually install those extra packages listed.

As for boot config, I had no idea that was rpi specific, thank you for that! I'm still learning a lot here. So I'm avoiding the desktop environment for now and sticking to command line, what config commands will work for HDMI configurations without a desktop? For example, forcing HDMI audio, ignoring hot-plug and always outputting thru HDMI, manually setting the default resolution, etc... Xrandr was giving an error about not finding the display... and will the settings persist or do I have to create a startup script to apply after a reboot?

[ClaudiaF]

Thanks for the quick reply! Hopefully ayufan comments back on when someone should and should not manually install those extra packages listed.

As for boot config, I had no idea that was rpi specific, thank you for that! I'm still learning a lot here. So I'm avoiding the desktop environment for now and sticking to command line, what config commands will work for HDMI configurations without a desktop? For example, forcing HDMI audio, ignoring hot-plug and always outputting thru HDMI, manually setting the default resolution, etc... Xrandr was giving an error about not finding the display... and will the settings persist or do I have to create a startup script to apply after a reboot?

What about using kernel boot params?
Something like video=HDMI-A:1920x1080@60D
Please double check syntax.

Cheers
Claudia