> NOTE: I'm still very open to suggestions on what to use as the base of
> the next generation of LRP like functionality. I'm mainly looking at
> starting with an existing distribution because 'out of the box' you get
> a working cross-compile environment (no more dedicated Debian Slink
> boxes just to compile an application or two),
The 'compat-*' packages from RH 6.2 work wonderfully. Heck even the
C++/STL stuff seems to work fine. (I know, I know, I'll hate myself
tommorow).
The difference I've noticed between 2.0.7 and 2.2.2 linked binaries is
that the libc is much larger, but the binaries are smaller.
> and much of the software will be pre-packaged. While the pre-packaged
> stuff will likely be in RPM format, it should be possible to easily
> convert the RPM's to a tar.gz file or something else shell-scripts can
> deal with.
RPM's are basically cpio's on steriods. The rpm2cpio utility will extract
the cpio portion.
> A lot of the hard work (that requires maintainence and debugging) goes
> into making sure the packages all work well together...we should be able
> to leverage this work from a mainstream distribution and speed our "time
> to solution". I really don't want to try to create or maintain a
> complete, from the ground up distribution...it seems like too much
> duplication of existing work.
During your evaluations, please consider distros that adhere to the FHS
and are "secure by default". Thanks.
John
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