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well i'm trying to maybe use a bunch of different partitions and mount |
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everything to a separate one say mount /usr/portage to something like |
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/dev/hda5 or whatever and then when i'm done I should hopefully have a |
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fully working / at one of the partitions, and then I can use dd to copy it |
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to a flash. |
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On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Vano D wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:02, david@×××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > I have a script I put together that will 'emerge' packages into an |
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> > alternate root using portage. My goal was a machine 'image' that I |
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> > could stick in an embedded device, and if upgrades were needed I would |
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> > upgrade the 'image' not individual packages. |
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> > At the smallest so far, i put busybox+glibc+kernel in 50 megs(i know |
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> > that's huge i compiled in locales and other junk), but right now I'm |
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> > working on building a uclibc toolchain. And I should have that |
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> > finished in about a week. |
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> I would be very interested in seeing how you went about doing this. As I |
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> understand you use a host gentoo installation to "emerge" packages into |
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> a clean root. What I wonder is what that root contains? Do you start |
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> with a skeleton? If so what? and finally do you use the bin package |
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> feature portage provides to carry this out? |
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> My eventual goal as I stated before is to have as lean/clean server |
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> enviornment as possible and as a secondary consequence try to make |
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> bootable CDs with custom selectable tools/apps. |
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> Regarding the -doc flag... I wonder how many packages support it. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Vano. |
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