Thank you for quick response! If I understand correctly it means that I have two copies of root file system, one of my workstation and the other the target of the build. Am I right?
Also I don't quite understand where the metadata of installed files resides, does the package manager know which files to remove? Thanks! Alon. On 11/4/08, Lars Kuhtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alon, > > indeed, you can manage a standalone desktop machine. Usually you start with a > target-build (e.g. the desktop target) that bootstraps a new system. Once you > have installed that system (via some kind of output image or directly via cp, > mv, etc.) you can either use the Emerge-Pkg script to build packages directly > into the running system or you can incrementally modify the original build > and synchronize (via binary packages, rsync, etc) with the running system. > > Regards, > Lars > > > On Tuesday 04 November 2008 12:12, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am Gentoo user and former developer (crypto & mobile herds). > > > > I got a reference to your project recently, I was amazed that I did not > > knew it earlier... > > > > It looks a great piece of work! > > > > I read the documentation and the FAQ, and did not quite understood one > > major fact, I will appreciate if some one can help. > > > > Can the package management manage (Install, remove, update) packages on > > root filesystem? > > > > I read that the package management can create various output images and it > > is great for some of my embedded scenarios... But can it be used to manage > > standalone desktop machine? > > > > If there is documentation for this please refer me. > > > > Thanks, > > Alon Bar-Lev. > > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe t2 > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe t2 > ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe t2
