Hi Stephen, >On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 23:25 +0100, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: >> Hi all; >> >> if you have some spare time over the holidays, you may consider to update to >> LEAF Bering-uClibc 3.0. >> >> The main features of the 3.0 version are the update of the uClibc version to >> latest stable 0.9.28 and the new config/package management framework. >> >> For those who installed the beta or release candidate an update will be easy >> and can be done within minutes. Others have to go through the usual >> update-time-wasting-cycle the last time. The new framework allows updates of >> packages without rewriting all configs - think about something similar to >> update Debian packages - you can maintain your version of the config files, >> use the config files out if the package, view a diff. >> >> The new config/package management framework also alleviates developers to >> build specialised embedded appliances based on LEAF. Example implementations >> are a VoIP appliance and a NAS appliance. >> >> We'd like to thank all beta testers for feedback, and all developers who >> improved this version - esp. Paul S. Traina and Cedric Schieli - both >> provided important pieces for the new config/package management framework. >> >> For downloads point your browser to the File Release System: >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13751&package_id=67534 >> >> Feedback on the leaf-user list is appreciated. >> >> in behalf of the Bering-uClibc team >> kp >> >> (Note: the USB image may arrive a little later - please be patient) > >Just downloaded the the 3.0 iso and got it up and running in no time. I >love the simplified backup scheme! No more trying to figure out which >package to backup nor fiddling around with destination and type settings >for each package. > >I do have one request (at the moment). Can you include an expanded tree >of the kernel modules on the iso image for the next release? Currently >it is a tarball and thus is much less convenient to have to extract a >file from it. > The image contains a script "build-modules" which automatically extract the modules from the tarball, according to the contents of / etc/modules. So if you list the modules you want to use in /etc/ modules and run the script, they are unpacked and placed in /lib/ modules/. (don't forget to save the moddb).
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