Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage in Embedded Systems?

[Brian Jackson]

On 3:33:23 am 10/05/04 Chris White <chriswhite@g.o> wrote:
>
> >  All,
> >
> >      Maybe I've just not seen this, but what sort of footprint does
> >  portage leave on embedded systems with low cpu/ram?  I ask this
> >  mainly because it's a Good Thing To Know (tm) considering the last
> >  LWE conference was full of people asking about using Gentoo for
> >  embedded devices.  Something like higher end Palms may be able to
> >  dish it out, but what happens when you get to lower end palms or
> >  even cell phones? Thanks ahead of time for any/all comments and
> >  hold on (*ChrisWhite prepares fireproof suit)... and flames.

I generally use ROOT= from a uclibc chroot I have on my system. Just
yesterday, I booted a uml with only 3 packages installed.

ROOT="/mnt" USE="make-busybox-symlinks" \
emerge -k uclibc busybox baselayout-lite

then I copied that to a uml root_fs, made a few changes, and it worked

I've got to feed a few changes back into the busybox/uclibc/baselayout-lite
ebuilds, and I'm hopefully going to get around to writing up some
notes/docs on how best to use and manage similar things.

--Iggy

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