--- Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The big thing to consider is the fact that .deb packages were not made
> to re-build the full OS at each reboot, ie: they presume persistent > storage. If you're running your systems off a HDD, that might not be a > problem for you, at which point I'd suggest you take a look at any of > the micro debian-based distributions that are avaialble. It would > probably be a lot easier to start with something designed to work with > .deb files than to coerce LEAF into that role. > Thanks for your comments, Charles. Yes, that is a good point. The micro-debian distros are still a little heavy. Its a good feeling to strip a perimeter router down to 1 diskette, but scale to a cd+hdd for a web cache. > I'll also throw out a few pointers, in case you decide you want to stay > in the leaf domain: > > - You should not currently use lrpkg -i to install an upgraded package, Thanks. Actually I'm using a rewritten apkg (originally from Oxygen). > > - If you're using partial backups to save your configuration, you can > fairly easily manually upgrade a package by: > Extract the .lrp file into /root of the current filesystem > Re-extract the configuration .lrp to restore the over-written > config files > > - If you wanted to be a bit cleaner, you could do a 'psudo' partial > backup (just stash the partial backup in /tmp or something) prior to > installing the updated package. See the backup scripts (and the local > file) for how to pull just the config data out of a package. > > - Obviously, you could create a script that automates the above > processes...most of the code even exists already, spread throughout the > backup scripts, linuxrc, and maybe a few other places... Nice ideas. Thanks for taking the time to respond. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: GNOME Foundation Hackers Unite! GUADEC: The world's #1 Open Source Desktop Event. GNOME Users and Developers European Conference, 28-30th June in Norway http://2004/guadec.org _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
