Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: solar <solar@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:22:16
Message-Id: 1138051245.21260.417.camel@onyx
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To? by Dennis Taylor
1 Please stop creating a brand new thread for every post when it's really
2 a RE: to an existing thread. If it's your email client doing it then
3 please install a functional one.
4
5
6 On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:45 -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote:
7 > Well, I blew that one. I decided to start over just in case I had
8 > missed something. Unfortunately, I failed to umount portage before I
9 > did rm -rf on the staging area. Now, I do not have /usr/portage. Some
10 > days are like that. :-(
11 >
12 > Does anyone know if it is possible to recover just portage without
13 > starting all over?
14 >
15 > -----Original Message-----
16 > From: Heath Holcomb [mailto:liquidcable@×××××.com]
17 > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:32 PM
18 > To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
19 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
20 >
21 > I wrote the how-to. I haven't built a system in several weeks, so
22 > portage has changed a bit (and ebuilds). I plan on updating the how-to
23 > in a week or two, if I discover new problems (looks like there are
24 > some).
25 >
26 > --
27 > heath holcomb
28 > liquidcable at bulah.com
29 > www.bulah.com
30 >
31 > On Monday 23 January 2006 12:28, Dennis Taylor wrote:
32 > > Having followed the other link to
33 > > http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more up to
34 >
35 > > date, am still having problems. At step 3 I get the following
36 > response.
37 > >
38 > > clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc Calculating
39 > > dependencies !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "uclibc"
40 > > !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
41 > >
42 > > I thought all the previous steps went OK. Even some of the
43 > > workarounds seem to no longer be needed. Any ideas?
44 > >
45 > >
46 > >
47 > > ________________________________
48 > >
49 > > From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@×××××××××××.com]
50 > > Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM
51 > > To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
52 > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
53 > >
54 > >
55 > > This is what I use:
56 > >
57 > > http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
58 > >
59 > > My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't
60 > > tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526
61 > > boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build
62 > > you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller:
63 > >
64 > > Remove /usr/include
65 > > Remove all .keep files
66 > > Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially
67 > > /etc and /var
68 > >
69 > > I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process
70 > > described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them
71 > > shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :)
72 > >
73 > > -Josh
74 > >
75 > > On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote:
76 > >
77 > >
78 > > I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but
79 > to
80 > > no avail. I have monitored this list long enough to know that someone
81 >
82 > > out there has done it. I need to do it for and X86 target that must
83 > > fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
84 > >
85 > >
86 > > The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc
87 > site
88 > > fails in various ways. I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but the
89 >
90 > > HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
91 > >
92 > > Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be
93 > greatly
94 > > appreciated.
95 > >
96 > > Dennis Taylor
97 >
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99 > gentoo-embedded@g.o mailing list
100 >
101 >
102 >
103 >
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105 solar <solar@g.o>
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