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Thanks for all your hard work! |
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Will you be at the conference on Friday in San Francisco? |
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Ross Carlson |
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Corvus Technologies |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Thierry Carrez [mailto:koon@g.o] |
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Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:38 AM |
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To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o |
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Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o |
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Subject: [gentoo-embedded] GNAP 1.8 Release (Gentoo Network APpliance) |
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OK guys, the beast is out... |
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GNAP is a Gentoo-based Network Appliance building system. It allows to |
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build LiveCDs or bootable disks with a customized network appliance |
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configuration in seconds. This is especially useful to quickly install |
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Gentoo on small-CPU hosts to use them as routers, firewalls, VPN boxen... |
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Starting point : |
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http://embedded.gentoo.org/gnap.xml |
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This version includes new features, more stability in the build |
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environment (thanks to a reduced portage snapshot shipped with the |
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package) and a comprehensive new set of docs. |
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New GNAP Core and remastering Features : |
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* New feature to automate configuration changes backup (bug #86241). See |
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the RW_SYNC option in overlay.conf, which replaces the RW_OVERLAY option |
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(deprecated) |
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* GNAP kernel now supports n_hdlc line discipline to use with |
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synchronous PPP (bug #99115), and vfat filesystems as r/w overlays |
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* Support to specify account password initialization (chpasswd) and |
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services to start (services_start) as files on the target filesystem |
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* Support for customizable baudrate on the serial console |
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* Possibility to use genkernel-built packages (minkernpackage, |
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modulespackage) as GNAP extensions |
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* The rrdtool backend, which was a standard core feature, has been moved |
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to a standard extension. Use gnap_remaster -e rrdtool to rebuild the |
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core with that extension included |
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* 20050808 portage snapshot compatibility, including zlib security fixes |
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* GNAP now uses udev as its device manager, anticipating devfs removal |
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in future kernels |
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New GNAP build features : |
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* gnap_make now starts from Portage snapshot files rather than requiring |
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a Catalyst snapshot stage. A reduced Portage snapshot is now shipped in |
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the gnap-dev package to facilitate GNAP rebuild |
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* Easier filesystem customization using root_overlay/ in gnap_make |
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* Support for distcc building, in case you have uclibc-powered systems |
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to use as build partners... |
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New documentation : |
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* User Guide has been rewritten and split into two separate guides. The |
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new user guide (http://embedded.gentoo.org/gnap-userguide.xml) now |
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covers everything you need to know to produce and customize GNAP systems. |
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* The new Advanced User Guide |
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(http://embedded.gentoo.org/gnap-advancedguide.xml) gives information |
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for power users that want to further customize and modify what their |
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GNAP systems can do. You should be familiar with GNAP systems and Gentoo |
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systems in general before reading this guide. |
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So "emerge gnap" and start to play ! Ask me on IRC (#gentoo-gnap or |
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#gentoo-embedded) for any questions you may have. |
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For bugs/patches/enhancement requests, use the Bugzilla "Embedded" |
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component and assign bugs to me. Thank you. |
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Thierry Carrez (Koon) |
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