On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:14:24 Ben Armstrong wrote:
For the most part, I think there is enough flexibility within Debian to
pick and choose the smallest tools that will do the job from among the
binary packages. Where Debian currently falls short, we can create -tiny
versions of packages as
Chris Rutter wrote:
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 14:14:24 Ben Armstrong wrote:
For the most part, I think there is enough flexibility within Debian to
pick and choose the smallest tools that will do the job from among the
binary packages. Where Debian currently falls short, we can create -tiny
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000 09:22:12 Glenn McGrath wrote:
hmm, im not sure its practical to create extra binary packages, wouldnt
it be more effective to exclude files from regular packages as its
installed.
I was suggesting that the script would create them on-the-fly -- they
wouldn't reside
I'm not certain that trying to cram OS config into a kernel config tool is
the right idea, but I do agree that the concept is effective.
What about a more generalized framework for this sort of thing to build a
disk image for a highly customized embedded Debian system? Take a
subdirectory and
Wookey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed 16 Aug, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
It's been pointed out that emdebian (http://www.emdebian.org/) is
essentilly an effort to do just this. [shrink debian to fit
handhelds]
It is? I use their
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I can imagine many different ways of building the operating system image.
The one I'll be working on initially is a Snarf 'n' Pick implementation.
Basically it will work by snarfing Debian packages and picking subsets of
files from the packages. To my
Matthew Franz wrote:
Frank,
I think the OS-builder app is a great idea.
Would its raw material be pre-compiled debian binary packages or would
My first pass at this will be based on snarfing pre-compiled binary packages.
Simply QD, but probably useful to a lot of people.
it be able
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Matthew Franz wrote:
Would its raw material be pre-compiled debian binary packages or would
it be able to build the system from source. Unless there were separate
embedded .debs, I don't know that the standard binaries would be compact
enough to support limited
Hi Ben,
Ben Armstrong wrote:
anywhere else in Debian? It's curious that busybox isn't packaged
separately.
Actually, a few weeks ago Erik Anderson wrote to tell me:
FYI, I just uploaded
busybox_0.45-1_i386.deb
busybox-static_0.45-1_i386.deb
busybox_0.45-1_i386.changes
Ag, evil. If you plan to use busybox upgrade to .46 there are some serious
problems with .45 in regards to tar and nfs.
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Frank Smith wrote:
Hi Ben,
Ben Armstrong wrote:
anywhere else in Debian? It's curious that busybox isn't packaged
separately.
Actually, a
Quoting Ben Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
sort of configuration at compile-time would be a useful. Is busybox used
anywhere else in Debian? It's curious that busybox isn't packaged
separately.
debian developer and author/maintainer of busybox hat on
For woody, we are creating a new section
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