Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Christopher Friedt <cfriedt@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] small replacement for emerge for live package-management?
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:31:28
Message-Id: 47A67906.3080309@visible-assets.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] small replacement for emerge for live package-management? by Ned Ludd
1 Ned, can I just say something quickly ...
2
3 You're awesome !
4
5 That's exactly what I was looking for ;-)
6
7 At some point a long time ago I used qmerge on my old desktop machine
8 but I completely forgot that it existed !! I think that was even before
9 I started working with arm boards ;-)
10
11 Ned Ludd wrote:
12 > Few notes.. These can be mounted by the embedded device as a tmpfs.
13 > $ROOT/usr/portage/packages/ var/tmp/portage. You can/should delete the
14 > contents in there on embedded devices.
15 >
16 > 1) Never make/allow qmerge to touch the libc
17 > 2) Never make/allow qmerge to touch the *busybox*/bin/sh..
18 >
19 > Final note.. It's still an applet in development. If you find a bug in
20 > it. I'd much would rather have a patch that fixes it up vs a bugzilla
21 > entry telling me whats wrong with it. Good luck.
22
23 Thank you! Will do,
24
25 Chris
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