On 2/3/21 2:42 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
I did. Sorry for the misinterpretation. Not familiar with
debootstrap.
No problem. That's why I clarified.
The minimum required is probably just the stage3, plus a kernel package
and a bootloader of some kind.
I'd like to do an old school
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 14:31 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I'm thinking we might have different ideas of what debootstrap does. Or
> perhaps that you thought I meant a fuller Debian / Ubuntu system.
I did. Sorry for the misinterpretation. Not familiar with
debootstrap.
> I'm looking for the
On 2/3/21 1:48 PM, tastytea wrote:
You could install Gentoo into a directory without the build tools,
but you would have to install packages and update them from a full
Gentoo installation outside that directory. I've used that technique
in my Docker experiments.[1]
emerge --root=/workdir
On 2/3/21 2:21 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
Probably selecting the "default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/gnome/systemd"
profile would get you the closest to start with.
I hit send too soon.
Based on the new information, I suspect I actually want
"default/linux/amd64/17.1". (Or whatever is
On 2/3/21 2:21 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
@system depends on your profile. So depending on what profile you
select, you'll have a different set of implicitly selected packages.
The light bulb is starting to glow.
To answer your original question...
Probably selecting the
On Wed, 2021-02-03 at 13:40 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote:
> > Are you thinking about the system packages instead of the world file?
>
> Yes. That's what I meant. Thank you for correcting me.
>
> > If so, I think it is as small as it can be already.
>
> That is / was my understanding as well.
On 2021-02-03 14:29-0600 Dale wrote:
> Grant Taylor wrote:
> > This may be a silly question, but I don't know, so I'm going to ask.
> >
> > What is the minimal world file to be somewhat conceptually similar
> > to a debootstrap install of Debian / Ubuntu?
> >
> > Is the world file that ships
On 2/3/21 1:29 PM, Dale wrote:
If I recall correctly, the world file from a stage3 tarball is empty.
It only has the packages you want installed added there.
You and Arve are correct.
Are you thinking about the system packages instead of the world file?
Yes. That's what I meant. Thank
Grant Taylor wrote:
> This may be a silly question, but I don't know, so I'm going to ask.
>
> What is the minimal world file to be somewhat conceptually similar to
> a debootstrap install of Debian / Ubuntu?
>
> Is the world file that ships with stage3 the smallest it can be? Or
> are there
On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 21:06, Grant Taylor
wrote:
>
> This may be a silly question, but I don't know, so I'm going to ask.
>
> What is the minimal world file to be somewhat conceptually similar to a
> debootstrap install of Debian / Ubuntu?
>
> Is the world file that ships with stage3 the smallest
This may be a silly question, but I don't know, so I'm going to ask.
What is the minimal world file to be somewhat conceptually similar to a
debootstrap install of Debian / Ubuntu?
Is the world file that ships with stage3 the smallest it can be? Or are
there things that can safely be
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