Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Tin Hat memory requirements?
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:29:58
Message-Id: 1219300171.19388.62.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Tin Hat memory requirements? by Jan Klod
1 On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 19:03 +0300, Jan Klod wrote:
2 > > The reason I don't use the gentoo tbz2 is becuase it does not support
3 > > package splitting (i.e separate documentation and developer packages
4 > > for /usr/share/doc and .h and .a files)
5 > >
6 > > you can install precompield binaries using apk_add:
7 >
8 > Well, not so bad for a special-purpose machine, but is it hard to make those
9 > binary packages (*.apk) for quick install with apk_add?
10
11 techincall no. You can actually rename any tar.gz file to foo-1.0.apk
12 and it just works. You can even install it remotely:
13
14 apk_add scp://host/path/to/foo-1.0.apk
15
16 You might want to add a DEPEND file inside if you want dependencies.
17
18 If you are going to convert a gentoo package using the build env its a
19 bigger job, unfortunally.
20
21 -nc