RE: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?

["Dennis Taylor" <Dennis_T1@VERIFONE.com>]

Well, I blew that one.  I decided to start over just in case I had
missed something.  Unfortunately, I failed to umount portage before I
did rm -rf on the staging area.  Now, I do not have /usr/portage.  Some
days are like that. :-(

Does anyone know if it is possible to recover just portage without
starting all over?

-----Original Message-----
From: Heath Holcomb [mailto:liquidcable@bulah.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 1:32 PM
To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?

I wrote the how-to.  I haven't built a system in several weeks, so
portage has changed a bit (and ebuilds).  I plan on updating the how-to
in a week or two, if I discover new problems (looks like there are
some).

--
heath holcomb
liquidcable at bulah.com
www.bulah.com

On Monday 23 January 2006 12:28, Dennis Taylor wrote:
> Having followed the other link to
> http://www.bulah.com/embedded-guide.html, which seems to be more up to

> date, am still having problems.  At step 3 I get the following
response.
>
> clwsapp07 root # ROOT=/embedded_rootfs emerge -K uclibc Calculating 
> dependencies !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "uclibc"
> !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
>
> I thought all the previous steps went OK.  Even some of the 
> workarounds seem to no longer be needed.  Any ideas?
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Joshua ChaitinPollak [mailto:jpollak@kivasystems.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:16 AM
> To: gentoo-embedded@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] FAQ / How To?
>
>
> This is what I use:
>
> http://www.bulah.com/embeddedgentoo.html
>
> My installation is 6 mb, since I'm installing into 32 mb, I haven't 
> tried too hard to pair it down. I'm installing on Soekris net4526 
> boards. Keep in mind there are somethings you can do after you build 
> you filesystem with Gentoo to make the install even smaller:
>
> Remove /usr/include
> Remove all .keep files
> Audit the rest of the file system for unnecessary files, expecially 
> /etc and /var
>
> I have a series of scripts I've written to automate the process 
> described in the above howto, and I would like to publish them 
> shortly, but please don't hold your breath. :)
>
> -Josh
>
> On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Dennis Taylor wrote:
>
>
> 	I have tried various ways of building a root fs with uClibc, but
to 
> no avail.  I have monitored this list long enough to know that someone

> out there has done it.  I need to do it for and X86 target that must 
> fit in about 1.5 MB of flash that gets copied to RAM and started.
>
>
> 	The "out of the box" configuration I linked to from the uClibc
site 
> fails in various ways.  I like the Gentoo way of doing things, but the

> HOWTO link I saved a while back does not work.
>
> 	Any pointers to documents that would help me succeed would be
greatly 
> appreciated.
>
> 	Dennis Taylor

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