On 19:42 Thu 27 Sep , Petar Dimitrijevic wrote: > Hi ppl, > > My basic idea is to have chroot-ed environment which will be the full > system and then to install separate system with only minimal stuff (without > gcc, portage, ...). When I need to update the minimal system I will first > update the chrooted one and the emerge the updates onto the new one.
What it sounds like you want is an LFS system. Look at the -B option for emerge. That may have some of what you are looking for. > I wanted to ask if somebody has done something like this, is something like > this possible and are there any wiki's or howto's on this topic. I've tried > searching through the handbook and google-ing but had no luck. I thought about doing this once before, but what is going to make the diffrence is how minimal you want the system. Are we talking a kernel + [ba|z]sh + coreutils or are we talking a tiny Apache server? If you want the absolute minimal, then I would look some into LFS since Gentoo wants to install so much by default (gcc, bash, coreutils, wget, ect). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
