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On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 17:04 -0400, Victor Condino wrote: |
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> Also, I was wondering how realistic it is to replace bash, grep, sed, |
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> awk, tail, procps, psutil, etc. with busybox. I know that the |
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> initscripts in baselayout rely on these various text- and shell-utils |
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> and obviously on bash... is it possible to get them to run using busybox |
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> and its builtin applets? if so that would cut down on the root-fs size |
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> and complexity, not to mention my build time, by alot. |
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The embedded stuff uses baselayout-lite, I believe. Otherwise, |
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replacing the baselayout stuff will be a serious pain and will probably |
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take you quite a few man-hours. |
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> I know catalyst is designed to do this sort of thing, and from what I |
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> gather, the embedded target, although meant for real (as in hw) embedded |
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> systems, is pretty close to what I need, but when it comes to python, i |
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> know very little, so examining the source in /usr/lib/catalyst/modules/ |
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> hasn't been too helpful. Which target is closest to what I'm looking |
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> for, and if the embedded target is it, where can I find some good info |
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> and an example .spec for it? I found this link: |
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> [http://dev.gentoo.org/~mutex/catalyst-doc], but at the end there's |
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> nothing after the line, "Links to sample spec files:" ;) |
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I would think it would be the embedded target. Very little work has |
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really been done in this area by me, so I couldn't tell you how it |
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works. |
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> I'm willing to take the plunge and learn python if nescessary to do some |
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> hacking on one of the existing target modules to get it to do what i |
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> need. Basically just wondering if anyone else is interested in automated |
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> building of this kind of system, and if anyone can suggest where to |
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> start and what might need to be done in order to get catalyst to do |
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> this. I don't mean to pester the developers; this is not intended as a |
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> "feature request" or a "how do I ..." help-desk call ;) |
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I'm sure rocket will pipe in once I quit harassing him for changes for |
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the release. He's been poking around with both UML and Xen, so he would |
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probably be one of the best resources on this. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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