On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 15:20:21 +0100 Christopher Friedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm quite new to using Paludis, but I'd like to have an 'emerge' > substitute for some embedded systems with <= 16 MB of nand flash > storage.
How much RAM? > We're now turning towards modularizing all of our software and being > able to do remote updates whenever necessary in order to better > facilitate our clients. > > Subsequently, we need to actually have some small embedded package > manager present which maintains a db of installed software and > versions. The packages will never actually be built on the embedded > devices themselves; they will have to fetch a binary package from a > pre-determined repository. > > * Do you think that Paludis is a suitable for such a task? Possibly. If you use a pull rather than push model, you'll still need quite a bit on the embedded systems. Have you considered both options? Push is probably better suited here. > * What runtime requirements does Paludis have? (i.e. does it need > libstdc++, etc) libstdc++, bash. > * Does Paludis deal with the 'blobs' at the end of normal gentoo > tbz2's which contain all of the package information? Paludis doesn't use Portage's binary package format at all. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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