On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:11:44AM -0800, Dejan Nikic wrote: > Acctually I think this should work. I'm not really interested with > updates anyways. The computer (like most real embedded devices) will > not be connected to the outside world, so no security risks and need to > upgrade without doing a complete overhaul. I just need something stable > that works. I just have to see how it will behave with my RT kernel. >
I have a script I put together that will 'emerge' packages into an alternate root using portage. My goal was a machine 'image' that I could stick in an embedded device, and if upgrades were needed I would upgrade the 'image' not individual packages. At the smallest so far, i put busybox+glibc+kernel in 50 megs(i know that's huge i compiled in locales and other junk), but right now I'm working on building a uclibc toolchain. And I should have that finished in about a week. My earlier postings about the "-doc" use flag, which has turned into a FEATURE were related to this. At any rate, if you are interested I could show you a copy of what i've been working on. On a side note if i compile busybox statically everything fits in about 5 megs. One thing that is clear... gentoo(portage) needs better cross compilation and alternate libc support. I have some hacked code from aiken and zwelch(gcc-config-1.4.5) that I can *sorta* work with. But there are some intricacies of portage I don't understand... that I cannot get around. Dave > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 01:10, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 03:30, Dejan Nikic wrote: > > > hmm that's too bad. I wish there is some way of acctually chrooting > > > into a portage-less system, but still be able to compile everything > > > from scratch using the flags and such. Otherwise I'll have to go LFS > > > way, and I'd really hate to do that, since I really don't have that > > > much time on my hands. > > > > You could bind mount the portage tree into the root system (of course > > updates will be out of the question). After you're done unmerge portage > > and it works. > > > > Paul > > > > - -- > > Paul de Vrieze > > Gentoo Developer > > Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE/njJwbKx5DBjWFdsRAiS8AKCpP1mRGgGsWUh5jhsUf/669IucfACeP0HX > > XeoSxlZM0kfGqRGu+MA9yOs= > > =K6ne > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
