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> I think the 'tinygentoo' howto is quite useful for what you're talking |
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Actually, it is my start point. I'm trying to implement a set of |
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scripts to create the ram initrd file for use with my home server and |
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even with my workstation. But, although I intend to use a X11 on ram |
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for the workstation, I want to have the smallest memory footprint |
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possible. |
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My idea is: create a build host for initrd files for each system type |
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that I have. These initrd files would have (only) the same software |
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that I would run every day. |
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My arch is x86. |
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Thanks for the help! |
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2007/7/12, Christopher Friedt <cfriedt@××××××××××××××.com>: |
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> I think the 'tinygentoo' howto is quite useful for what you're talking |
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> about. Passing PORTAGE_CONFIGDIR and ROOT at the same time allows you to |
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> build a very minimal system. I usually just symlink /usr/portage to |
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> /tinygentoo/usr/portage, but you could just as easily mount -o bind it. |
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> I guess what's assumed in this case is that you're compiling for the |
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> same arch. Which arch are you using? Is there a qemu-system that is |
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> capable of running natively compiled binaries for your arch? |
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> I use busybox / (uclibc or glibc, without many of the locales) and have |
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> made several very small root filesystems, but mainly for ARM. |
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> ~/Chris |
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> 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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> > 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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> > 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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> > Thanks for the help! |
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