On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 13:04:23 +0400 Sergei Poselenov <sposelenov@emcraft.com> wrote: > - There is no .iso images for Grip. To create a target rootfs with > Grip "Squeeze" powerpc, I have to "debootstrap --arch=powerpc Don't use debootstrap for Emdebian - always use multistrap. multistrap -a powerpc -f /usr/share/multistrap/squeeze.conf > - Suppose, I'd like to remove some of the packages from the standard > list of Emdebian Grip distribution and add some of the pre-built > Debian packages, which are not in this list (I'm aware of package > dependencies). > I guess I could use --exclude=$package1,$package2,... for those I want > to exclude. > Is there any other ways to create my own grip distro? http://www.emdebian.org/multistrap/ > - How could I add a set of prebuilt packages from the main Debian > distro and get it "gripped" in automated way? apt-grip or use the scripts in the emdebian-grip-server package. > Should I to use apt-grip and create/maintain my own Emdebian grip > repo, using the emdebian-grip-server, like it is suggested here > http://wiki.debian.org/EmdebianGripGuide? Yes. > (However, apt-grip "...needs to be run on a machine of the same > architecture as the device" - this is too strict, I'm afraid this > won't work for me...) It works best in that way but it can work for a foreign architecture - the problem is that apt cannot then decide which packages have already been installed and therefore processes every dependency, all the way down to libc6. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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