From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6175 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Oct 2003 18:55:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 10830 invoked from network); 28 Oct 2003 18:55:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:55:27 -0800 (PST) From: Dejan Nikic To: Vano D cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1067366570.4852.124.camel@gentoo.europeansoftware.com> Message-ID: References: <1067271771.28314.8.camel@morello> <20031027213515.GA30120@redhate.futuretel.com> <200310281010.08694.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1067361104.21060.6.camel@morello> <20031028180201.GA4744@redhate.futuretel.com> <1067366570.4852.124.camel@gentoo.europeansoftware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Embedded X-Archives-Salt: 18f4cab4-3156-4087-8156-55e0baed8a6d X-Archives-Hash: 1ab079337b98a246fabec06b3793bd27 well i'm trying to maybe use a bunch of different partitions and mount everything to a separate one say mount /usr/portage to something like /dev/hda5 or whatever and then when i'm done I should hopefully have a fully working / at one of the partitions, and then I can use dd to copy it to a flash. On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Vano D wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:02, david@futuretel.com wrote: > > > I have a script I put together that will 'emerge' packages into an > > alternate root using portage. My goal was a machine 'image' that I > > could stick in an embedded device, and if upgrades were needed I would > > upgrade the 'image' not individual packages. > > At the smallest so far, i put busybox+glibc+kernel in 50 megs(i know > > that's huge i compiled in locales and other junk), but right now I'm > > working on building a uclibc toolchain. And I should have that > > finished in about a week. > > I would be very interested in seeing how you went about doing this. As I > understand you use a host gentoo installation to "emerge" packages into > a clean root. What I wonder is what that root contains? Do you start > with a skeleton? If so what? and finally do you use the bin package > feature portage provides to carry this out? > > My eventual goal as I stated before is to have as lean/clean server > enviornment as possible and as a secondary consequence try to make > bootable CDs with custom selectable tools/apps. > > Regarding the -doc flag... I wonder how many packages support it. > > Cheers, > > Vano. > > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list