Re: Emdebian minimal RootFS
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:53:16PM +0200, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
>Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com> [070508]:
>> On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 10:34:06PM +0100, Wookey wrote:
>> >On 2007-05-07 21:55 +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
>> >> Our versions (with libgcc1 and libstdc++6 to make an installable set):
>> >> Emdebian Install total=15Mb
>> >> Emdebian Download total=5Mb
>> >> (the majority of that is libc6)
>> >>
>> >> To be able to install the packages from Debian, this set is necessary:
>> >> busybox base-files cdebconf dpkg apt libstdc++6 libc6 base-passwd
>> >> initscripts login module-init-tools passwd sysvinit sysv-rc libgcc1
>> >> libpopt0 libgcc1 gcc-4.1-base mount libselinux1 awk lsb-base
>> >> libpam-modules libpam0g coreutils debian-archive-keyring libatk1.0-0
>> >> libcap1 gnupg libldap2 libdb4.3 libusb-0.1-4 libgnutls13 gpgv
>> >> libgcrypt11 makedev libgpg-error0 liblzo1
>> >> Emdebian Install total=15Mb
>> >> Emdebian Download total=5Mb
>> >And in fact, can you actually make a busybox-based debian rootfs in
>> >practice - I don't think the dependencies will allow it?
>>
>> My usual comfortable rootfs (without a compiler, though), is about 5Mb,
>> i fear that the dependencies would make this considerably bigger.
>> mount, makedev awk, login, dpkg, coreutils, passwd sound a little bit
>> redundant since busybox is supposed to be able to replace all of them,
>
>What should be done is to replace those packages with a busybox-minimal
>package.
Perhaps the busybox package(s) should just expand their "Provides:" field.
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