On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, j.chitte wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can someone advise on a method for extending the bare bones TSlinux
> image into something more useful.
>
> It's a nice compact base but not actually much use for a specific
> project without a number of additions.
>
> I've got a prototype of what I need on the "full" debian image
> supplied by TS with a few extras but this clearly has many deps that
> are not in the bare bones image. This works over nfs.
>
> I probably need to build stripped down versions of a number of
> packages (no doc and remove some options that pull in unwanted deps)
> and repack them to .deb for installation on the target SBC.
>
> I have crosstools set up on Debian 3.1 for the rebuilding needed.
>
> Before diving in I thought I'd poll for ideas , suggestions and
> caveats to avoid.
>
> many thanks, Jacques.
Gentoo's package manager is adept at building highly customised
distributions using cross compilers.. something to consider :)
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