Re: [gentoo-embedded] ADSL router + firewall + PoPToP....

[Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 07:46 -0400, Ned Ludd wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:09 +0200, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:53 +0100, Marcelo Coelho wrote:
> > > > no not at all. the baselayout-lite one does not depend on bash what so
> > > > ever and includes pretty much no init/conf scripts. You get to hack on
> > > > your own init scripts, which is a trivial task.
> > >
> > > Well, i have to use a different baselayout. The boot time is far too
> > > long to be acceptable and there is a problem with hotplug (an error
> > > appears that the firmware isn't available). But i don't know if it's
> > > easier to make my init scripts or use initng.
> >
> > I have made a baselyaout with a stripped down version of runscript that
> > will run the many init.d script from gentoo out of the box.
> >
> > Let me know if you are interested and I'll send you the sources
> 
> 
> Does not depend on bash?

no

> Works with ash? :)

yes :)

or... I'm actually using dash currently because coldplugging takes like
3 minutes with ash and 5 seconds with dash. (its fixed in next release
of busybox so I'll drop dash)

> If so I think we would all be interested in moving fwd in that
> direction. Feel like putting together an updated baselayout-lite ebuild?

I have one already. But its designed to load binary packages to ram
during boot, LEAF style.

rsync://tanael.org/alpine-portage/sys-apps/baselayout-alpine/

You can probably reuse parts of it. The source package is here:
http://tanael.org/alpine/baselayout-alpine/baselayout-alpine-0.9.6.tar.gz

I kind of immitate runlevels, (using rc0.d, rc1.d etc) but the big
difference from normal sysv is that *all* runlevels or "boot stages" are
executed.

I had to patch some of the init.d scripts. Typically it was replacing:

  if [ expr && expr ] ...

with:

 if [ expr ] && [ expr ] ...

If we could get the init.d script writers to try to not be too bashish,
it would be great.

If there is interrest I could dump my patches somwhere.

If you want to see it in action, try:
http://tanael.org/alpine/v1.1/iso/alpine-1.1.3_beta8-060622-i386.iso

Its 125Mb


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