On Wed 19 Jun, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:23:35PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > shape. We use it at university for a emdebeded system project and the > > results are good. > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of the emdebian > filesystem building tools is that they use only the files which are > actually requested. That is, the resulting system is not based on > installed Debian packages, and it is not possible to install additional > Debian packages onto it. correct. Or at least that is what the emdebsys tool does, as it is aimed at highly-embedded devices, rather than PDAs. I agree that PDAs need a package management system of some sort. However emdebian can be a wide church and I'd be happy if the project was used for PDA-debian filesystem-generation tools too. One of the project aims was tools for the generation of cut-down Debian packages, where the optimisations for locale and application are done at package-generation or install time rather than run time so that packages are smaller on the host device. The idea was a that a suitable set of more specific packages would be generated from debian ones using both general rules (e.g. throw away all the docs), and more package-specific ones. medebsys would then work from this pool, but a more PDA-oriented scheme could just install these packages. I think some sort of plan/scheme to generate cut-down packages for PDA-debian is an area that would benefit from some work. Familiar has started doing some work on this but Idon't think it's formalised or widely used yet. I'm working on a set of patches for my own survex package to split it into smaller pieces (4 ipkgs instead of 2 debs) and incorporte this into the normal build process. Do this for a large enough fraction of packages and you have PDA-Debian. > A large part of the reason that I want to run Debian on the Zaurus is that > I want to be able to install Debian packages on it. Indeed. Can you not already do that? (sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread). Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
