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On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:11:44AM -0800, Dejan Nikic wrote: |
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> Acctually I think this should work. I'm not really interested with |
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> updates anyways. The computer (like most real embedded devices) will |
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> not be connected to the outside world, so no security risks and need to |
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> upgrade without doing a complete overhaul. I just need something stable |
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> that works. I just have to see how it will behave with my RT kernel. |
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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. My earlier postings about the "-doc" use |
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flag, which has turned into a FEATURE were related to this. |
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At any rate, if you are interested I could show you a copy of what |
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i've been working on. |
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On a side note if i compile busybox statically everything fits in |
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about 5 megs. |
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One thing that is clear... gentoo(portage) needs better cross compilation and |
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alternate libc support. I have some hacked code from aiken and |
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zwelch(gcc-config-1.4.5) that I can *sorta* work with. But there are |
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some intricacies of portage I don't understand... that I cannot get around. |
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> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 01:10, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 03:30, Dejan Nikic wrote: |
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> > > hmm that's too bad. I wish there is some way of acctually chrooting |
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> > > into a portage-less system, but still be able to compile everything |
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> > > from scratch using the flags and such. Otherwise I'll have to go LFS |
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> > > way, and I'd really hate to do that, since I really don't have that |
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> > > much time on my hands. |
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> > You could bind mount the portage tree into the root system (of course |
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> > updates will be out of the question). After you're done unmerge portage |
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> > and it works. |
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> > Paul |
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> > Paul de Vrieze |
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