Hi

> I will help push if you help me test. I would like to have a minimal
> system with asterisk. What do you suggest? I have plenty of
> experience with catalyst, but I know you're not using it, so show us
> your way?

I think probably that my way is suboptimal.  I think Bertrands recent 
post using crossdev is probably much neater.

However, what I do is simply grab a uclibc build environment.  Chroot 
into it (I have a script which sets up portage by symlinking and 
mounting various dirs here and there).  What you end up with is 
effectively a running environment in the processor build and libc of 
your choice.  Clearly this doesn't work for archs that can't be run on 
your CPU...

- Anyway, so chroot into build environment
- ROOT=/somedir emerge somestuff

If you scan back in the archives for posts from me with "ROOT=..." in 
the body then you can see my basic skeleton.  Happy to dig them out, if 
they can't be found.  It takes surprisingly few packages to build a 
basic runnable system.

However, probably that's not what you want - not sure?

It is quite easy to do, but not a 2 min job if you haven't done it 
before.  Someone else documented the basic technique much better here: 
http://www.anticore.org/ratgentoo/index.php?page=001  or google for 
"tiny gentoo"...


> With catalyst I would probably have to create a uclibc profile, if
> case there isn't one already. Not a terribly big deal, but well, not
> what I want to focus on right now.
>

I suspect this is a better process from what you describe as your 
experience.  Just note the iconv pieces that I mentioned - they aren't 
integrated into the ebuild at the moment and are really up for 
discussion.  As you yourself noted, adjust the futzing around with 
db.txt to be something like
     cat $FILEDIR/db.txt /etc/locale.gen > db.txt
This should merge locale.gen and generate the character conversions you 
choose

If in doubt just comment out all that extra stuff I added - it's new and 
not relevant to the main ebuild

Blah I'm rambling now...

Good luck

Ed W