Re: Hi, and embedded routers
On Monday 26 July 2004 14:18, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 10:37:53PM -0400, Carl Worth wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:47:28 +0200, "David N. Welton" wrote:
> > > Depends what you are doing I guess, but on the system I'm working with,
> > > I don't care about keeping track of packages. I just want to create
> > > the target system and be done with it
> >
> > A package system can make this process easier, even if you don't need to
> > do any dynamic package management on the running system. And eliminating
> > all the storage overhead from a dpkg or ipkg database if you don't want
> > it is as simple as blowing away a single directory.
>
> 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.
>
> This way, only things actually used run-time (including pre/post/config
> files, that might be used for reconfiguring packages, and of course need
> to exist if a package is ever installed manually) need to exist on the
> target system, apt (~3MB), /var/cache/apt/* (usually 3-5MB
> depending on arch), /var/lib/apt/* (usually 5-15MB depending on arch)
> can all be removed.
>
> Any opinions? (For all I know, a similar solution might already exist,
> in that case I'd be happy to be informed...)
We I for one could use such a tool. If it does exist please can someone
point me at it. If not then I suppose we need to write it.
David
>
> Just my 0.02 Euro.
>
>
> Regards: David Weinehall
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