Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Embedded

[Dejan Nikic]

well the thing is that you don't want to remove gcc, only portage some
unused libs (i doubt their any with default Gentoo install) and probably
all those man and doc files.  There should be ways to statically link
everything, but that might be some work.

I got a 200mb install now, that I will hackaway at and try to get it
bellow 50mb hopefully I'm thinking of maybe writing something that will
use an existing gentoo install and use gentoo's portage and stuff to build
an LFS-like (Linux from scratch) image.



On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 jtoyota@×××××××××.net wrote:

> ok i'm new to both linux and gentoo.  so plz don't flame me.  yet, in order to get rid of gcc and portage why not compile or write a self-compile/extract thing-a-ma-jig (pre-build) the packages desired.  does this defeat your goal?
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> -josh
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> From: Vano D <gentoo-dev@××××××××××××××××.com>
> Date: 2003/10/28 Tue AM 11:24:12 EST
> To: gentoo-dev@g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Embedded
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> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 10:10, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > You could bind mount the portage tree into the root system (of course
> > updates will be out of the question). After you're done unmerge portage
> > and it works.
>
> [Still not used to the reply-to. Now off to the list. Paul already has a
> copy of my email before anyone else (lucky you ;)]
>
> This is very interesting. Such a simple idea. Anyhow I have also been
> looking at ways to get rid of portage/gcc/dev tools out of Gentoo. But
> my goal has been to clean the system of dev tools and thus portage
> (since it would be useless without dev tools) so as to create server
> installations. (Although I also have had a side interest in getting a
> knoppix-like system built solely out of gentoo.)
>
> I wonder if it would be possible to somehow remotely "mount" the rest of
> the stuff such as gcc/python etc.. as with portage. So this way the
> system would be completely clean and when it needs to be updated a
> script would mount/link the tools from a remote system and after its
> done upgrading it would unlink and we are left with a lean clean system.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> PD. I already have attempted at removing gcc and whatnot from Gentoo but
> have ended up with a nonbootable system. I would really appreciate if
> anyone who has had success in doing this would shed some light and give
> some tips.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vano.
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