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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