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On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:53 +0100, Marcelo Coelho wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I'm trying to create a minimal system and using the ROOT var to set |
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> the location where I want the packages to be installed. |
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> The problems arise when I tried to choose a cron daemon: I would have |
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> to install 39 packages, including portage. |
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I use busybox cron. Simple but does the job. |
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> How can I trim the package set that would be emerged together with the |
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> cron daemon or other packages? |
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Build binary packages and install the binary packages on target system |
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(with qmerge?) I even use my own package format. (basicly simple tar.gz |
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files with some additional simple dependency handling) |
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> When emerging with the ROOT var (eg.: /var/system), the make.conf file |
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> that is used is the one that is located at that location (eg.: |
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> /var/system/etc/make.conf) ? |
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> What normally are the packages that you guys use as minimal system? |
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I cheat. I create stripped binary packages which i then install on the |
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target system. My alpine distro runs from RAM and install the runtime |
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packages during boot. |
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Here is the package list of my minimal system: |
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uclibc |
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alpine-baselayout (to use busybox init rather than sysv) |
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apk-tools (my package manager) |
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busybox |
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tdb (database for sfic) |
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sfic (traces changes in the /etc dir) |
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alpine-conf (stores changed files to usb/floppy) |
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Mem usage is normally around 10-15MB after a boot. Then everything is in |
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RAM and network is configured. |
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>From there I install the needed packages to RAM. Common packages are |
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shorewall openvpn, openswan, etc. I have some bigger packages to use my |
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distro as a light server: postgres postfix samba (got even AD support |
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working) I'm currently working on vserver to get virtualization too. |
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(managed to install and run debian as guest (on soft raid1 + lvm) in my |
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minidistro) |
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Everything is built with gentoo ofcourse. |
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> Thanks for the help! |
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