From: "josé Alberto Suárez López" <bass@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Updating embedded systems
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:27:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1170145634.23758.3.camel@supercoco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B8EA97.5060509@wildgooses.com>
El jue, 25-01-2007 a las 17:36 +0000, Ed W escribió:
> Jose Alberto wrote:
> > I'm workin in the next version of GNAP, it will support SquasFS packages
> > and upgrade system :)
> >
> > so i recommend you GNAP.
> >
>
> Cool. I like the idea of GNAP anyway
>
> Have you a pointer to what a SquasFS package is? (SquashFS?) I'm guess
> that it's probably a unionFs arrangement of multiple SquashFS
> partitions. Presumably you just drop the changes on top and they mask
> out the old stuff?
sorry, i mean SquashFS packages :) Are precompiled pkgs, you just drop
it in a rw partition of the CF or HD and them will expand itself in the
init of the system. So will be very easy to upgrade only some parts of
the system
>
> Actually my use is for more of a stripped down system, eg Epia box with
> a HD. Probably I don't have such tight requirements as a truly embedded
> system, it's mainly that I like Gentoo in general, but want to avoid
> having a compiler and 800MB of portage files on my distribution box, yet
> still be able to update packages
>
> The intended use was to host FreePbx, ie I will need Asterisk, plus some
> heavyweight webserver which supports PHP, eg Apache
>
> Cheers
>
> Ed W
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-20 12:51 [gentoo-embedded] Updating embedded systems Ed W
2007-01-20 14:24 ` Natanael Copa
2007-01-22 1:09 ` [gentoo-embedded] odd behavior in '$SYSROOT' Christopher Friedt
2007-01-21 17:22 ` [gentoo-embedded] Updating embedded systems Jose Alberto
2007-01-25 17:36 ` Ed W
2007-01-25 17:48 ` Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
2007-01-26 10:06 ` Ed W
2007-01-26 11:59 ` Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
2007-01-30 8:27 ` josé Alberto Suárez López [this message]
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