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On 3/15/07, Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Then in tbz2's you have everything, including doc's, .a files, headers |
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> etc. If you are not going to use this stuff on your end target, why |
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> waste the bandwith? Sure in our part of the world where we have bandwith |
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> this is no big deal but there are part of the world where bandwith still |
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> is expensive and slow. So I wanted to strip this out from the binary |
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> package. |
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One way to partially achieve this is nodoc/noinfo/noman, however it |
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still keeps headers and other garbage. I'm handling it with a |
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converter to my own tbz2-like format, but I use squashfs to store |
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files. Converter also does the job of splitting tbz to several such |
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squashfs files like abc-2.3, abc-2.3-dev, abc-2.3-man, etc. |
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> Then there was the problem with package that needed to create a user or |
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> something like that in pkg_postinst. Calling pkg_postinst would need to |
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> read the ebuild which would require bash + loads of eclasses. It could |
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> also be be very handy to have a hook for executing something specific my |
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> distro. This was also lacking in tbz2. |
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You have to choose between size and flexibility here. Squashfs pack (I |
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really like this format ;) ) of portage/eclass is 429.90Kb. This is |
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not critical for my handheld, however it would be hard to fit same |
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into my router. |
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Sincerely, |
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Vladimir "Farcaller" Pouzanov |
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http://hackndev.com |
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