Re: Smaller?
Steve Langasek wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 09:53:33AM -0600, Harmon Seaver wrote:
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>> I also would like to use busybox, but I'm not sure about installing
>>it -- will apt remove the other utils? The busybox page at
>>packages.debian.org says it doesn't create the symlinks for all those
>>utils, that would be a drag to have to do all that manually.
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>No; busybox is not a complete replacement for coreutils AFAIK, and even if
>it were, coreutils is an essential package. If you try to replace coreutils
>with busybox, you'll basically never be able to use the Debian package
>management tools again.
>
>If you really need to get your alpha system down below 256MB (which is
>probably much more feasible with another port where binaries are smaller,
>e.g., i386)
>
well, the i386 port won't run on my multia 8-)
I'm using this to build a router on because it's small, has two pcmcia
ports for the wifi cards, plus has onboard nic. And I've had it sitting
around for years, might as well put it to use. But you're right, a cheap
pentium 200mhz laptop with a broken screen would be a better choice in
the long run.
>, then it doesn't really sound like Debian is the right system
>for you. At any rate, you probably should be talking to the Debian-embedded
>folks about tips and tricks for reducing system size.
>
Yup -- that's my next step -- I was already trying the
uclibc/buildroot stuff, but that isn't working for alpha yet,
apparently. And I've been looking at the emdebsys and emdebian stuff as
well, but that too isn't that far along either, especially for alpha. I
run familiar (and intimate before that died) on my ipaq, and someone on
the familiar list said that it probably wouldn't be that hard to compile
the openembedded stuff that familiar is based on for alpha, so maybe
I'll try that.
> One thing would
>probably be to use an apt post-invoke hook to dump /usr/share/doc, since you
>shouldn't need that at runtime.
>
>BTW, aptitude is indeed a great tool for automatically managing
>dependencies, but only *if* you can afford the overhead of aptitude itself:
>
>Package: aptitude
>Status: install ok installed
>Priority: optional
>Section: admin
>Installed-Size: 8968
>Maintainer: Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>
>Architecture: alpha
>Version: 0.4.1-1
>Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11, libc6.1 (>= 2.3.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.2), libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5), libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2-4)
>
>Package: libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
>Status: install ok installed
>Priority: optional
>Section: libs
>Installed-Size: 96
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