Re: building custom embedded distributions
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 10:54:56AM +0200, David N. Welton wrote:
> David Weinehall wrote:
>
> >I've been pondering about a "apt-remote" tool for a while, that would
> >perform the update semi-remotely; you keep /var/lib/dpkg/{status,info}
> >on the target, but the rest of the infrastructure only exists on the
> >source computer, which does the upgrade calculations, downloads the
> >packages, builds the package tree etc, then installs the package
> >contents on the the target, the target runs the install scripts and gets
> >the status file updated (possibly remotely) after the install is
> >finished.
>
> It would be a neat trick, but I'm finding that the hard part for me in
> using debs is keeping my own source code changes integrated. Also,
> there is a lot of overhead building stuff that I just don't care about.
I build debs of my own source code too, to be able to keep track of
dependencies in a sane manner.
> In other words, it seems like a good way of making "a smaller Debian",
> but not quite for smaller, more heavily modified embedded systems.
Well, this is after all debian-embedded...
> openembedded is definitely worth a look for one way of doing things. I
> think they get a lot of stuff right, but the whole thing seems to be
> weighed down under lots of "magic" variables and files.
Ugh...
regards: David Weinehall
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