On 2/7/02 at 9:07 AM, Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You might also want to check out the gentoo linux portage > system: http://www.gentoo.org I've heard of them a while back; the creator was inspired to create his own distribution partly because of the BSD ports tree. I just wish I had a PC to try it on - I've PCs, but it's not certain I'd have anything I could run it on. Besides, I've got to install Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Netware 4 first :) > Since the gentoo stuff is intended to basically build > itself entirely from source, I think even if it doesn't > truly support flexible library managment, we could > probably work around this by making a chroot directory or > something...similar to the way some are running a debian > slink development environment on a more recent disto. That was in fact my thought of how to do things with LEAF and a NFS-enabled busybox. However, to answer valid concerns, I was thinking of 1) a LEAF development environment; and 2) a LEAF configuration environment. One would then go like this perhaps... # mount bigsys:/ /usr/sys # chroot /usr/sys /bin/ksh # cd /usr/ports/network/wget && make && make lrp # exit # cd /usr/sys/usr/ports/network/wget # make install ...that's just a first impression; one could build the chroot steps into another makefile target, or other such things. Once all of this stuff is compiled, the configuration environment could be unplugged from NFS by replacing a statically linked busybox (with NFS) with a busybox without NFS. -- David Douthitt UNIX Systems Administrator HP-UX, Unixware, Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
