Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: How to keep config files separate from the packages

2001-11-07 Thread David Douthitt
> My thought, too, is that all packages EXCEPT root.lrp could be put on > the network on an FTP host or such like - and thus, not only could the > system be updated on the fly, but if you had multiple hosts they would > all have their sources updated at the same time, and so on. See trinix... htt

RE: [Leaf-devel] Re: How to keep config files separate from the packages

2001-11-07 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
- Original Message - From: "arne @ loopback . org" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would go a step further. make a minimal busybox only containing very few > applets(tar,msh as shell,mount,ls,cat,...) And link it statically with > uClibc. This will result in a quite small binary and you don't need

Re: [Leaf-devel] Re: How to keep config files separate from the packages

2001-11-07 Thread David Douthitt
Jacques Nilo wrote: > Well I think initrd.gz should contain as few things as possible. In my > proposal it boils down basically to libc6, ld-linux, ash, busybox, sed > and root.linuxrc. In this case, it's like this: libc6 (500k), ash (90k), busybox (150k), sed (64k), and others so right away