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Thomas Flavel wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 07:29:01PM -0600, Bryce Porter wrote: |
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> > Tom: |
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> > "I'm just thinking along the lines of a minimum binary system where |
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> > absolutley needed, and compiling specifically everywhere else? I realise this would |
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> > be slow to install on slower systems, but, since we're all power users... ;) |
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> > Seriously though, I do think this would be a nice feature, unless there's |
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> > some practicality reason I'm missing." |
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> > ------------------------------------------------------------- |
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> > I think this is a great idea. I heard of a GNU/Linux distrobution that |
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> > when installed compiled all selected packages from source, making it the |
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> > most optimized you could get for your specific machine. I think it was |
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> > called Rock Linux or something. |
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> Not heard of it, but a quick search on google reveals the predicatable url: |
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> http://www.rocklinux.org, #rocklinux on irc.openprojects.net. |
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> Looks to be faily mature (at least they're past 1.0 ;), supports ppc and alpha |
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> as well as x86. |
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Please send me you ppc, alpha, i64, mips, sparc machines and I will do the ports. :-) |
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> From what I can see it has a binary cd version, with the option |
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> to compile from source (the same thing I was talking about, if I understand them |
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> correctly). It describes it's package management as closer to FreeBSD than debian. |
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> It looks to be quite similar to gentoo to me, although not quite as advanced. |
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I took a look at the site and think that we need something similar to cfengine |
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sometimes. |
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I thougth about a minimum build system too, while I had to go back to i486 from i686. |
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There is another project linux-from-scratch (www.lfs.org i think) that creates a |
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statically linked set |
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of packages required for build first and then builds the rest with that bin's. Such a |
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set would require |
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about 50MB and it is not difficult to make a few modified packages for that. |
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This build-system could be placed on a gentoo-source cd together with a snapshot of the |
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port-tree. |
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Then you whould be able to boot with the source-cd and install a build.tbz2 instead of a |
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sys.tbz2. |
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Then you can chroot to that system and build everything from sources. |
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Additionally this offers the possibility to build gentoo from within another |
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linux-distro. |
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How do you guys think about that? |
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Bye Achim |
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> No offence if they're listening ;) |
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> - Tom |
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