On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:42 -0600, Quantum Scientific wrote: > Studying pbuilder now, which invokes debootstrap and apt. Cdebootstrap seems > to be a more primitive incantation of debootstrap. Also learning about > OpenEmbedded.
In my playing around with cdebootstrap and debootstrap, I've found cdebootstrap a little easier to make custom file systems using its --configdir argument. debootstrap is hard-coded to using only the scripts in /usr/lib/debootstrap/scripts/ where the script filename is critical for operation. I've also used poldek from pld to build filesystems from rpm repositories. Has apt-get's capabilities (dependencies resolution and auto download) but has a wonderful interactive mode with tabbed-completion for package selection. It can also locate the rpm database outside the filesystem, which comes in handy when you get small. Poldek is able to build a filesystem and the rpm database from scratch without bootstrapping the database like debootstrap does for debs. Poldek also allows for install excludes where you can specify that files from certain directories are not installed like man, info, locales, etc. I'm no expert here on either packaging system but I do know that debootstrap forces dpkg installs because of initial dependency problems where poldek does not. I've got customers using poldek for embedded system development using Fedora rpms. I seriously considered using it also but didn't want to get involved in finding the rpms that Fedora doesn't have. Hooking on the Debian repository is soooo much easier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
