Re: Essential packages (Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx)

2002-06-17 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Magnus Ekdahl wrote: > On Sunday 16 June 2002 22:35, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > head, tail, tr and wc are certainly necessary for booting. Are those the > > ones which you replaced with asmutils? > > I'm able to boot without head, tail, tr and wc . If you have a spare > filesy

Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx

2002-06-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Experimenting with -Os I've never found it that good at making binaries much > smaller on arm. (I think I was getting less than 1% smaller. The object > files in question happened to be current development perl. I'm not sure if > that makes a difference

Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx

2002-06-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > ncurses-base > > ncurses-bin > Are these just to support dselect, should dselect be essential ? dselect/dpkg in 1.10 have been split. dpkg 1.10 predepends on dselect 1.10, to support upgrades. > > e2fsprogs > not essential for people who dont have a

Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx

2002-06-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 06:10:10PM +0100, Miah Gregory wrote: > > > The size of the local package database is also a concern. Will any of the > > planned changes to dpkg address the size of the database, to make it more > > suitable for limited resource

Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx

2002-06-16 Thread Adam Heath
cc'd to debian-dpkg, for comment. On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 03:34:30AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > > However, I don't generally tinker with hardware(I'm a programmer). > > However, I am a dpkg developer, so any patches

Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx

2002-06-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > I think this will not be a problem. Since the Zaurus divides up its 64M > into storage and operating RAM, the user should be able to trade off some of > one for the other. It has 10 megs of storage, and 20-ish of ram. > It is possible to upgrade the

Re: Debian on the Sharp Zaurus/SL-5xxx

2002-06-16 Thread Adam Heath
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The base system shall fit within the internal storage provided on the > SL-5500 (16MB flash ROM + 64MB persistent RAM storage + main memory), > however, I hope to work out a mechanism for gracefully expanding the system > onto CF and/or SD cards[3], to