DJ Lucas wrote: > No. I suggest we fix this once and for all and use unionfs. I've used > this many times while building LFS, but I get stuck when I actually > have the system up and running. Hope people here now can start and > take this seriously so we can have a working solution. > > I'm about to build a new system this christmas, so I need to figure > out how to have unionfs working once the system is up. > > Unionfs only helps with collecting the written files done by any > install script, but it does not solve package management; like > inserting, removing, listing, locating, etc, so I also need a solution > there.
Great minds think alike, apparently; I've been tackling this exact issue in order to build a LFS system using the Linux-Live scripts. It uses aufs instead of unionfs, but it's the same concept. I've been using CLFS (because my build system is 64-bit...!) but the work I've done should port over pretty easily. I'm successfully building CLFS and having it spit out a SquashFS filesystem for each package, which I think is pretty much what you're looking at there. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
