On Thursday 03 September 2009, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting "Gertjan Hofman" <[email protected]>: > > However...my limited experience with embedded systems sees the size > > of flash chip grow so rapidly that its hard to get anything under > > 256MB at a reasonable price, which set us off a path of seeing > > whether we could avoid the various embedded build projects > > (OpenEmbedded, Buildroot etc) and use reliable, standard Debian. We > > can - I can build a minimal RFS in 20 MB (JFFS2). > > Gertjan, this is exactly why we use Emdebian Grip in my company. > It actually *is* standard Debian, just smaller. Currently we use > Emdebian Grip *plus* a dumb scripts that remove more stuff, but > I hope, that this script will shrink with the Emdebian progress. I also have such a script, which originated when I was effictively doing my own Grip on raw Debian packages. Maybe we should all share our scripts to make sure that we are remembering everything that can be deleted.
David > > > With respect to updating packages, this is unlikely to be a problem > > on real commercial devices - I can't see releasing a device to a > > customer that has the ability to apt-get > > Same for my project. We use Emdebian to build the RFS and to have > a nice development platform (incl. apt-get), but we will probably > remove apt-get etc. from the final product. If customers ask for > it, we still can provide them with a developers RFS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
