On Sunday 08 June 2003 01:10, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:25:38PM +0300, Dan Armak wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > > > On Saturday 07 June 2003 21:04, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > > > > Use custom installtion. Ditch stuff you don't need. > > > > > > Tried that. It's not granular enough. > > > > Gentoo is great for setting up a system on another box (in a chroot) and > > then moving it over. It's extremely granular and if you compile with -Os > > and don't install things you don't need (docs, .po's) and at the end > > remove things you don't need anymore (kernel sources, include files, > > pieces of gcc/binutils...) you can make a very very lean system. > > But what happens when you want to make a change in the system? You'll > have to install the whole build environment once again? or re-attach the > hard-disc to a different computer? Both options sound very > time-consumng.
You can keep a copy of the non-stripped chroot on the box you built it on (it'll use up a few hundred MBs without compression, no big deal on a more modern box), then you can update that whenever you want to, strip it again and copy it over. -- Dan Armak Matan, Israel Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key
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