Hi Neil, On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 16:21:59 +0100 Neil Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:39:31 +0400 > Sergei Poselenov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ah, I see now. Grip just repackages, not rebuilds with reduced > > configuraton. > > Correct. > > > Yes, we are planning to use coreutils and perl, but we don't want > > full-size packages configurations - with Xorg libraries, for > > example. I guess, Grip (being the only repack of Debian packages) > > will still have this "fat" configuration. > > Relatively fat in terms of the number of packages installed and the > fact that the Debian dependencies (i.e. things like coreutils and > perl) remain intact. However, the packages themselves are a lot > smaller. > How the size reduction is achieved? Is it just more aggressive "strip", along with man and docs removal? > > BTW, how can I get a list of Debian (Grip, Crush) packages for PPC? > > There are only Grip packages for PPC. > Right, I understand this. No more Crush. > > I see they seems to be here > > http://www.emdebian.org/grip/search.php, but hidden under sections, > > and only "armel" are available. > > That's just a default in the sections listing. Any package available > for armel will be available for all other architectures. As for an > actual list, see: > http://www.emdebian.org/grip/dists/unstable/main/binary-powerpc/ > > There are also dev/, debug/, doc/ and java/ components. Unlike Debian, > we split packages into more components based on the kind of > binary package concerned with the source remaining in 'main'. > Ah, thanks. And the dependencies are here too, great. Thanks a lot! Regards, Sergei -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
