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It must be the email client. Please do not flame me, but for email, I |
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am stuck with MS Windows. Does anyone have a suggestion of a client |
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that I can put on Windows to enable me to comply with this very |
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reasonable request? |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: solar [mailto:solar@g.o] |
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Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:21 PM |
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To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o |
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Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To? |
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Please stop creating a brand new thread for every post when it's really |
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a RE: to an existing thread. If it's your email client doing it then |
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please install a functional one. |
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On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:45 -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote: |
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> Well, I blew that one. I decided to start over just in case I had |
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> missed something. Unfortunately, I failed to umount portage before I |
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> did rm -rf on the staging area. Now, I do not have /usr/portage. |
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> Some days are like that. :-( |
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> |
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> Does anyone know if it is possible to recover just portage without |
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> starting all over? |
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> |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Heath Holcomb [mailto:liquidcable@×××××.com] |
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> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:32 PM |
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> To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To? |
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> I wrote the how-to. I haven't built a system in several weeks, so |
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> portage has changed a bit (and ebuilds). I plan on updating the |
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> how-to in a week or two, if I discover new problems (looks like there |
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> are some). |
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> |
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> -- |
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> heath holcomb |
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> liquidcable at bulah.com |
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> www.bulah.com |
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> |
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> On Monday 23 January 2006 12:28, Dennis Taylor wrote: |
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> > Having followed the other link to |
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> > http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more up |
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> > to |
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> |
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> > date, am still having problems. At step 3 I get the following |
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> response. |
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> > clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc Calculating |
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> > dependencies !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: |
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"uclibc" |
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> > !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild. |
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> > I thought all the previous steps went OK. Even some of the |
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> > workarounds seem to no longer be needed. Any ideas? |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > ________________________________ |
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> > |
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> > From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@×××××××××××.com] |
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> > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM |
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> > To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To? |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > This is what I use: |
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> > |
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> > http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html |
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> > |
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> > My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't |
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> > tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526 |
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> > boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build |
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> > you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller: |
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> > Remove /usr/include |
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> > Remove all .keep files |
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> > Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially |
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> > /etc and /var |
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> > I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process |
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> > described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them |
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> > shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :) |
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> > -Josh |
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> > |
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> > On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote: |
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> > I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but |
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> to |
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> > no avail. I have monitored this list long enough to know that |
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> > someone |
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> > out there has done it. I need to do it for and X86 target that must |
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> > fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started. |
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> > The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc |
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> site |
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> > fails in various ways. I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but |
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> > the |
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> > HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work. |
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> > Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be |
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> > appreciated. |
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> > Dennis Taylor |
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