Re: [Leaf-devel] How-to get rid of LRP kernel patches

2001-11-07 Thread David Douthitt
Charles Steinkuehler wrote: > > > 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 s

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] gatping with debugging symbols

2001-11-07 Thread Scott C. Best
Jacques Nilo wrote: > > - 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 i

[Leaf-devel] How-to get rid of LRP kernel patches

2001-11-07 Thread Jacques Nilo
Matt Schalit wrote: > I got around to replacing the ipmask-0.30 shell script > with the 0.32 compiled version on the LEAF oxygen packages site. > > I don't get the logic of the -c option. It says: > -c Display only CIDR > > So why would that output ip/cidr? > # ipmask -

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

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

2001-11-07 Thread Angelacos, Nathan
"Angelacos, Nathan" wrote: > load_disk_package contains this line: > > [ "${PKG##*/}" = "${CONFIG##*/}" ] && return 0 > > which if I read correctly, exits if the current package is the config > package. That seems like the right thing to do (although we do load root.lrp > twice.) Howev