[gentoo-dev] Generating a CD with all the sources?

[gentoo-dev] Generating a CD with all the sources?

[christoph]

Actually it should be easy to include the sources.

Need
1. the usr/portage tree (74 Meg on my system right now)

How can I clean out all the unneeded stuff from /usr/portage/distfiles?
Just zap them and rely on step 2 to download what is neede?

2. The sources (emerge --emptytree -f world right)?

If this fits on a CD then I will upload that

Re: [gentoo-dev] Generating a CD with all the sources?

[Charles Lacour]

On Thursday 01 August 2002 17:40, you wrote:
> Actually it should be easy to include the sources.
>
> Need
> 1. the usr/portage tree (74 Meg on my system right now)
>
> How can I clean out all the unneeded stuff from /usr/portage/distfiles?
> Just zap them and rely on step 2 to download what is needed?

Might be faster to write a script to move everything to a temp directory and 
then move back the tar.bz2 file for each ebuild package installed. (Depends 
on how fast your net connection is as to whether it would be worth it.)

> 2. The sources (emerge --emptytree -f world right)?

That should get all the application packages -- you may have to hand copy 
some of the stage1-, stage2- and stage3 tarball stuff. I'm not sure that that 
stuff (such as the initial filesystem layout) is in any kind of ebuild 
package.

> If this fits on a CD then I will upload that

It should fit easily on the "minicd" or "noX" versions. Of course "it" is 
rather flexible. If you're talking about the bare bones of gentoo, it should 
only be 100 - 150 MB. If you add all the source tarballs for everything else 
on the CD, then the more you put on the CD the bigger the source will be. I'm 
pretty sure there's a "sweet spot" in there where you can have most of the 
functionality you'd expect, but still have a reasonable sized CD.

I'd leave out the big package groups like KDE and Gnome to start with. X and 
something like Blackbox + xfce will probably be doable, although if 
necessary, even X could be postponed until later.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Generating a CD with all the sources?

[christoph]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Charles Lacour wrote:

> It should fit easily on the "minicd" or "noX" versions. Of course "it" is
> rather flexible. If you're talking about the bare bones of gentoo, it should
> only be 100 - 150 MB. If you add all the source tarballs for everything else
> on the CD, then the more you put on the CD the bigger the source will be. I'm
> pretty sure there's a "sweet spot" in there where you can have most of the
> functionality you'd expect, but still have a reasonable sized CD.

Ok. I took the minicd as a base and added all sources for building
mozilla, xfce, fluxbox. No binaries for X. Binaries prebuild for links
(GUI browser) and all other essentials. Also includes stage1 for 1.3b.

Will show up as g2source.iso on http://gentoo.org/~christoph soon. Might
take till tomorrow morning to finish uploading.