Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-09 Thread Marek Skuczynski
Haller, John H (John) pisze: What else is there out there for rootfs, really? A hack from every embedded company there is? I'm more after what people actually *use* and what is community driven here, not so much opinions on what is best (which will probably be the unwanted side effect of this m

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-09 Thread Peter Korsgaard
> "Linus" == Linus Walleij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Linus> If you know some way of sneaking a device node into a Linus> .tar file created ENTIRELY running as a regular user, Linus> tell me! You just mentioned it yourself - fakeroot. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:52:34PM -0700, David VomLehn wrote: > We do this all the time. We have a very minimal root filesystem and > aren't currently using any of the frameworks for building root > filesystems, so everything is done with make. In general, we create tar > files for each piece.

Re: building Rootfs

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Schwebel
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:14:04AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > > They are both build systems for userlands, or whole embedded linux > > systems. I cannot speak for OE as I don't really know it in detail. > > Anyone have experience with both? I'd really like to have them > contrasted and, well you