I think the 'tinygentoo' howto is quite useful for what you're talking
about. Passing PORTAGE_CONFIGDIR and ROOT at the same time allows you to
build a very minimal system. I usually just symlink /usr/portage to
/tinygentoo/usr/portage, but you could just as easily mount -o bind it.
I guess what's assumed in this case is that you're compiling for the
same arch. Which arch are you using? Is there a qemu-system that is
capable of running natively compiled binaries for your arch?
I use busybox / (uclibc or glibc, without many of the locales) and have
made several very small root filesystems, but mainly for ARM.
~/Chris
Marcelo Coelho wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to create a minimal system and using the ROOT var to set
the location where I want the packages to be installed.
The problems arise when I tried to choose a cron daemon: I would have
to install 39 packages, including portage.
How can I trim the package set that would be emerged together with the
cron daemon or other packages?
When emerging with the ROOT var (eg.: /var/system), the make.conf file
that is used is the one that is located at that location (eg.:
/var/system/etc/make.conf) ?
What normally are the packages that you guys use as minimal system?
Thanks for the help!
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