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On 23:04 Thu 27 Sep , Petar Dimitrijevic wrote: |
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> forgottenwizard wrote: |
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>> On 19:42 Thu 27 Sep , Petar Dimitrijevic wrote: |
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>>> Hi ppl, |
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>>> My basic idea is to have chroot-ed environment which will be the full |
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>>> system and then to install separate system with only minimal stuff |
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>>> (without gcc, portage, ...). When I need to update the minimal system I |
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>>> will first update the chrooted one and the emerge the updates onto the |
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>>> new one. |
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>> What it sounds like you want is an LFS system. Look at the -B option for |
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>> emerge. That may have some of what you are looking for. |
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> Hm I browsed through emerge man page but I'm unable to find the -B option. |
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> Is this maybe --build option ? |
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Yeah. Just something to build the binaries should work. |
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>>> I wanted to ask if somebody has done something like this, is something |
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>>> like this possible and are there any wiki's or howto's on this topic. |
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>>> I've tried searching through the handbook and google-ing but had no luck. |
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>> I thought about doing this once before, but what is going to make the |
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>> diffrence is how minimal you want the system. Are we talking a kernel + |
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>> [ba|z]sh + coreutils or are we talking a tiny Apache server? |
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> Well I want to have couple of variations: |
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> 1. Apache, php, python, |
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> 2. Xorg, python, wxwindows |
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> So I guess they wouldn't be too small. My expectations are that the fs size |
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> would be <= 256 MB to 400 MB. My target is VIA C3 Nemiah board with 128MB |
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> RAM and 512MB CF Card. |
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Nice. Apache I know you could fit into that without a problem, and X |
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should be able to handle that little |
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>> If you want the absolute minimal, then I would look some into LFS since |
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>> Gentoo wants to install so much by default (gcc, bash, coreutils, wget, |
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>> ect). |
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> I thought about checking out LFS but Gentoo seemed simpler to try. Also |
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> because of portage the system is easier to upgrade. But if I can't get what |
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> I need I guess I'll try LFS. |
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Look up ALFS (Automated Linuc From Scratch). It's a basic system, but if |
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you want something fairly minimal, I'd suggest looking at Portage and |
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the ebuilds you like and see if you couldn't script yourself a small |
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package manager just using wget and maybe doing the compiling by hand |
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(or just running ./configure && make && make install, if you don't want |
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to do anything to minimize the installed packages). |
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