Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: wireless <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Suitable Email Client - was FAQ / How To?
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:37:37
Message-Id: 43D4FD17.9070106@tampabay.rr.com
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-embedded] Suitable Email Client - was FAQ / How To? by Dennis Taylor
1 Dennis Taylor wrote:
2 > It must be the email client. Please do not flame me, but for email, I
3 > am stuck with MS Windows. Does anyone have a suggestion of a client
4 > that I can put on Windows to enable me to comply with this very
5 > reasonable request?
6
7 Mozilla has a very simple email client that is pretty easy to
8 configure and it runs on linux/bsd/windoz...
9
10 James
11
12
13 >
14 >
15 > -----Original Message-----
16 > From: solar [mailto:solar@g.o]
17 > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 4:21 PM
18 > To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
19 > Subject: RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
20 >
21 > Please stop creating a brand new thread for every post when it's really
22 > a RE: to an existing thread. If it's your email client doing it then
23 > please install a functional one.
24 >
25 >
26 > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 15:45 -0500, Dennis Taylor wrote:
27 >
28 >>Well, I blew that one. I decided to start over just in case I had
29 >>missed something. Unfortunately, I failed to umount portage before I
30 >>did rm -rf on the staging area. Now, I do not have /usr/portage.
31 >>Some days are like that. :-(
32 >>
33 >>Does anyone know if it is possible to recover just portage without
34 >>starting all over?
35 >>
36 >>-----Original Message-----
37 >>From: Heath Holcomb [mailto:liquidcable@×××××.com]
38 >>Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:32 PM
39 >>To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
40 >>Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
41 >>
42 >>I wrote the how-to. I haven't built a system in several weeks, so
43 >>portage has changed a bit (and ebuilds). I plan on updating the
44 >>how-to in a week or two, if I discover new problems (looks like there
45 >>are some).
46 >>
47 >>--
48 >>heath holcomb
49 >>liquidcable at bulah.com
50 >>www.bulah.com
51 >>
52 >>On Monday 23 January 2006 12:28, Dennis Taylor wrote:
53 >>
54 >>>Having followed the other link to
55 >>>http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more up
56 >>>to
57 >>
58 >>>date, am still having problems. At step 3 I get the following
59 >>
60 >>response.
61 >>
62 >>>clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc Calculating
63 >>>dependencies !!! There are no packages available to satisfy:
64 >
65 > "uclibc"
66 >
67 >>>!!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
68 >>>
69 >>>I thought all the previous steps went OK. Even some of the
70 >>>workarounds seem to no longer be needed. Any ideas?
71 >>>
72 >>>
73 >>>
74 >>>________________________________
75 >>>
76 >>>From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@×××××××××××.com]
77 >>>Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM
78 >>>To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
79 >>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
80 >>>
81 >>>
82 >>>This is what I use:
83 >>>
84 >>>http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
85 >>>
86 >>>My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't
87 >>>tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526
88 >>>boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build
89 >
90 >
91 >>>you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller:
92 >>>
93 >>>Remove /usr/include
94 >>>Remove all .keep files
95 >>>Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially
96 >>>/etc and /var
97 >>>
98 >>>I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process
99 >>>described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them
100 >>>shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :)
101 >>>
102 >>>-Josh
103 >>>
104 >>>On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote:
105 >>>
106 >>>
107 >>> I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but
108 >>
109 >>to
110 >>
111 >>>no avail. I have monitored this list long enough to know that
112 >>>someone
113 >>
114 >>>out there has done it. I need to do it for and X86 target that must
115 >
116 >
117 >>>fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
118 >>>
119 >>>
120 >>> The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc
121 >>
122 >>site
123 >>
124 >>>fails in various ways. I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but
125 >>>the
126 >>
127 >>>HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
128 >>>
129 >>> Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be
130 >>
131 >>greatly
132 >>
133 >>>appreciated.
134 >>>
135 >>> Dennis Taylor
136 >>
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