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Something like iPkg is ideal because it was built specifically for this |
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purpose - but I really have no interest in switching do a Debian based |
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distro. |
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Christopher Friedt wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> Are there any pointers for a light(er) weight package manager for |
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> embedded devices with <= 16 MB of flash storage ? |
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> I've grown accustomed to using emerge to build binary packages for all |
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> of my boards. Up until now we've just blasted the binary packages onto |
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> our boards in the shop, but we're turning towards updates on live |
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> systems in the field. |
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> Paludis has struck my interest but I'm just not sure what the runtime |
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> requirements are, and how well it deals with normal gentoo binary tbz2's |
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> (and their metadata). I think that libstdc++.so is a bit too big for our |
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> boards, so any options with C++ dependencies are likely out the door. |
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> Having python on our boards is not really an option either, and |
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> therefore the factory 'emerge' also won't work (or will it??). |
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> Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm sure that some of you have dealt |
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> with the same problem before. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Chris |
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