On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:42:50PM +0100, Vano D wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would be very interested in seeing how you went about doing this. As I > understand you use a host gentoo installation to "emerge" packages into > a clean root. What I wonder is what that root contains? Do you start > with a skeleton? If so what? and finally do you use the bin package > feature portage provides to carry this out? >
Turns out portage creates a few things it seems to need. /var/db/ type of files and a couple others. But nothing massive. I don't even bother emerging portage to the 'fake root'. If there is interest from more than a couple of people. I can clean up the code a bit and post 'submerge' to the list. > > My eventual goal as I stated before is to have as lean/clean server > enviornment as possible and as a secondary consequence try to make > bootable CDs with custom selectable tools/apps. > I have done the latter here as well. Hacking boot CD's with your own apps isn't easy. It took me about a week of messing with 'livecd-ng' which doesn't appear to be maintained anymore. But I hear rumors that drobbins and some other people are working on a new system. > Regarding the -doc flag... I wonder how many packages support it. > They don't, see the thread from last week "USE Flags" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
