Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Joshua ChaitinPollak <jpollak@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Suitable Email Client - was FAQ / How To?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:01:03
Message-Id: D5133C61-F0D1-440F-9165-E0889469B78B@kivasystems.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Suitable Email Client - was FAQ / How To? by Michael
1 I looked into this a bit more, it looks like Dennis's version of
2 Outlook does not include In-Reply-To and References headers in his
3 emails, but has some other form of reference tracking. I don't know
4 if Outlook has a compatibility mode, or if newer versions support In-
5 Reply-To, but a web search should have some info on that.
6
7 I'd recommend Thunderbird anyway though.
8
9 On Jan 23, 2006, at 4:36 PM, Michael wrote:
10
11 > I think Thunderbird would do... Good question you asked btw!
12 > Greetings,
13 >
14 > Michael
15 >
16 > Dennis Taylor wrote:
17 >
18 >> It must be the email client. Please do not flame me, but for
19 >> email, I
20 >> am stuck with MS Windows. Does anyone have a suggestion of a client
21 >> that I can put on Windows to enable me to comply with this very
22 >> reasonable request?
23 >>
24 >>
25 >> -----Original Message-----
26 >> From: solar [mailto:solar@g.o] Sent: Monday, January 23,
27 >> 2006 4:21 PM
28 >> To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
29 >> Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
30 >>
31 >> Please stop creating a brand new thread for every post when it's
32 >> really
33 >> a RE: to an existing thread. If it's your email client doing it then
34 >> please install a functional one.
35 >>
36 >>
37 >> On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:45 -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote:
38 >>
39 >>> Well, I blew that one. I decided to start over just in case I
40 >>> had missed something. Unfortunately, I failed to umount portage
41 >>> before I did rm -rf on the staging area. Now, I do not have /usr/
42 >>> portage. Some days are like that. :-(
43 >>>
44 >>> Does anyone know if it is possible to recover just portage
45 >>> without starting all over?
46 >>>
47 >>> -----Original Message-----
48 >>> From: Heath Holcomb [mailto:liquidcable@×××××.com]
49 >>> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:32 PM
50 >>> To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
51 >>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
52 >>>
53 >>> I wrote the how-to. I haven't built a system in several weeks,
54 >>> so portage has changed a bit (and ebuilds). I plan on updating
55 >>> the how-to in a week or two, if I discover new problems (looks
56 >>> like there are some).
57 >>>
58 >>> --
59 >>> heath holcomb
60 >>> liquidcable at bulah.com
61 >>> www.bulah.com
62 >>>
63 >>> On Monday 23 January 2006 12:28, Dennis Taylor wrote:
64 >>>
65 >>>> Having followed the other link to
66 >>>> http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more
67 >>>> up to
68 >>>>
69 >>>> date, am still having problems. At step 3 I get the following
70 >>>>
71 >>> response.
72 >>>
73 >>>> clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc
74 >>>> Calculating dependencies !!! There are no packages available to
75 >>>> satisfy:
76 >>>>
77 >> "uclibc"
78 >>
79 >>>> !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
80 >>>>
81 >>>> I thought all the previous steps went OK. Even some of the
82 >>>> workarounds seem to no longer be needed. Any ideas?
83 >>>>
84 >>>>
85 >>>>
86 >>>> ________________________________
87 >>>>
88 >>>> From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@×××××××××××.com]
89 >>>> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM
90 >>>> To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
91 >>>> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
92 >>>>
93 >>>>
94 >>>> This is what I use:
95 >>>>
96 >>>> http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
97 >>>>
98 >>>> My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I
99 >>>> haven't tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on
100 >>>> Soekris net4526 boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you
101 >>>> can do after you build
102 >>>>
103 >>
104 >>
105 >>>> you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller:
106 >>>>
107 >>>> Remove /usr/include
108 >>>> Remove all .keep files
109 >>>> Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files,
110 >>>> expecially /etc and /var
111 >>>>
112 >>>> I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process
113 >>>> described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them
114 >>>> shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :)
115 >>>>
116 >>>> -Josh
117 >>>>
118 >>>> On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote:
119 >>>>
120 >>>>
121 >>>> I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but
122 >>>>
123 >>> to
124 >>>
125 >>>> no avail. I have monitored this list long enough to know that
126 >>>> someone
127 >>>>
128 >>>> out there has done it. I need to do it for and X86 target that
129 >>>> must
130 >>>>
131 >>
132 >>
133 >>>> fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
134 >>>>
135 >>>>
136 >>>> The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc
137 >>>>
138 >>> site
139 >>>
140 >>>> fails in various ways. I like the Gentoo way of doing things,
141 >>>> but the
142 >>>>
143 >>>> HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
144 >>>>
145 >>>> Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be
146 >>>>
147 >>> greatly
148 >>>
149 >>>> appreciated.
150 >>>>
151 >>>> Dennis Taylor
152 >>>>
153 >>> --
154 >>> gentoo-embedded@g.o mailing list
155 >>>
156 >>>
157 >>>
158 >>>
159 >>>
160 >> --
161 >> solar <solar@g.o>
162 >> Gentoo Linux
163 >>
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167 >>
168 >>
169 >>
170 >>
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178 Joshua ChaitinPollak
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