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On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 09:59, Chris PeBenito wrote: |
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> I agree with this. I'm thinking that baselayout-lite would probably |
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> just have one init script, rc.sysinit or the like. There's not very |
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> many systems that would have/need additional runlevels. So a good place |
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> might be to extract stuff out of /sbin/rc, and other regular baselayout |
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> scripts and merge into one script. |
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> Solar has also suggested looking at the buildroot baselayout, but I have |
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> been bogged down by my classwork, so I haven't looked yet. |
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> > Well I'm not sure where to draw the line... |
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> > do we want to still have /var/run PID functionality for example ? Or should we |
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> > leave that up to the embedded user... it could most likely be |
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> > implemented in a few lines of bash. |
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> > or maybe some sort of busybox like funcitonality with symlinks... i.e. |
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> > |
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> > /etc/init.d/busyinit |
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> > /etc/init.d/network -> /etc/init.d/busyinit |
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> This is another good idea :) Especially since busybox is most likely |
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> going to get heavy use. /var/run may or not be around; with something |
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> real simple, without the classic /etc/init.d services, it probably |
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> doesn't need to. |
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What are the chances of setting the long term goal of modularising the |
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current baselayout so that it's flexible enough to install on both a |
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minimal embedded environment, a headless box with serial ports (no |
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colourisations to screw up the output), and a full blown desktop box? |
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