Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 22:08 +0100, Chris Boot escreveu: SLIND sounds interesting indeed, I've been using a buildroot-built system for mine so it was difficult getting dpkg built in the first place, but I've got it mostly all going. All the

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 30 May 2006, at 08:53, Alexander Shishkin wrote: On 5/30/06, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Yes, I can see that could be handy. I'm guessing SLIND is based on woody? No, it is based on testing/unstable. Host part is mostly sarge (it was

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 30 May 2006, at 09:12, Alexander Shishkin wrote: On 5/30/06, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just make a list of everything you have installed and rebuild each package one-by-one until you've covered everything. I can't see where the problem is. In the real world (tm) building things

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Alexander Shishkin
On 5/30/06, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 May 2006, at 23:53, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Yes, I can see that could be handy. I'm guessing SLIND is based on woody? No, it is based on testing/unstable. Host part is mostly sarge (it was in the 0.1 prerelease, now most of it is sid). Well

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On 5/30/06, Daniel Ruoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I do think it would be really nice is to have a contrib-builds SLIND repository (like backports do). This would make things easier for sharing this effort. Will be there Real Soon Now (tm). Hardware is already at the desk, I just need to

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Alexander Shishkin
On 5/30/06, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just make a list of everything you have installed and rebuild each package one-by-one until you've covered everything. I can't see where the problem is. In the real world (tm) building things by hand is not acceptable because of a) complicated

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-30 Thread Alexander Shishkin
On 5/30/06, Chris Boot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, but I'm just talking about getting a basic environment set up from scratch. I realise slind removes the need for that now, but... I'm not insisting on you using slind, I just want to convince people to contribute to it. :) -- I am

Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Boot
Hi all, I'm starting work again on a thinned-down version of Debian I call PicoDebian. The idea of this new version is to replace glibc with uClibc, and generally slim down various packages to fit nicely in confined environments. I've managed to build several of the base-system packages

Re: {SPAM} Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-29 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 13:49 +0100, Chris Boot escreveu: I'm starting work again on a thinned-down version of Debian I call PicoDebian. The idea of this new version is to replace glibc with uClibc, and generally slim down various packages to fit nicely in confined environments. This need

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-29 Thread Chris Boot
On 29 May 2006, at 18:32, Daniel Ruoso wrote: Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 13:49 +0100, Chris Boot escreveu: I'm starting work again on a thinned-down version of Debian I call PicoDebian. The idea of this new version is to replace glibc with uClibc, and generally slim down various packages to

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-29 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 22:08 +0100, Chris Boot escreveu: SLIND sounds interesting indeed, I've been using a buildroot-built system for mine so it was difficult getting dpkg built in the first place, but I've got it mostly all going. All the arch-independent packages help a lot too. In

Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-29 Thread Steve Kemp
On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:53:02PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: In fact, I want it to work as a native debian system. This way, buildroot causes a lot of problems Isn't this what 'apt-build' can be used for? http://julien.danjou.info/article-apt-build.html That allows you to rebuild

Re: {SPAM} Re: Debian Mini-distro: how to recompile base-system and remove Java?

2006-05-29 Thread Daniel Ruoso
Em Seg, 2006-05-29 às 23:59 +0100, Steve Kemp escreveu: On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 07:53:02PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: In fact, I want it to work as a native debian system. This way, buildroot causes a lot of problems Isn't this what 'apt-build' can be used for? That allows you to rebuild