Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Christopher Friedt <cfriedt@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-embedded] small replacement for emerge for live package-management?
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:30:48
Message-Id: 47A5D016.7030906@visible-assets.com
1 Hi everyone,
2
3 Are there any pointers for a light(er) weight package manager for
4 embedded devices with <= 16 MB of flash storage ?
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6 I've grown accustomed to using emerge to build binary packages for all
7 of my boards. Up until now we've just blasted the binary packages onto
8 our boards in the shop, but we're turning towards updates on live
9 systems in the field.
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11 Paludis has struck my interest but I'm just not sure what the runtime
12 requirements are, and how well it deals with normal gentoo binary tbz2's
13 (and their metadata). I think that libstdc++.so is a bit too big for our
14 boards, so any options with C++ dependencies are likely out the door.
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16 Having python on our boards is not really an option either, and
17 therefore the factory 'emerge' also won't work (or will it??).
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19 Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm sure that some of you have dealt
20 with the same problem before.
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23 Cheers,
24
25 Chris
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