forgottenwizard wrote:
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.
Hm I browsed through emerge man page but I'm unable to find the -B
option. Is this maybe --build option ?
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?
Well I want to have couple of variations:
1. Apache, php, python,
2. Xorg, python, wxwindows
So I guess they wouldn't be too small. My expectations are that the fs
size would be <= 256 MB to 400 MB. My target is VIA C3 Nemiah board with
128MB RAM and 512MB CF Card.
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).
I thought about checking out LFS but Gentoo seemed simpler to try. Also
because of portage the system is easier to upgrade. But if I can't get
what I need I guess I'll try LFS.
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