From: Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com>
To: Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>
Cc: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [ANN] New 'base-image' created (Was: [RFC] Add ipkg to minimal image)
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:04:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1323505412.20071216120459@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4764EDFB.9000801@whitby.id.au>
Hello Rod,
Sunday, December 16, 2007, 11:20:59 AM, you wrote:
> Based on the good discussion and constructive feedback related to my RFC
> about adding ipkg to minimal image, I have decided to create a new
> image, whose name truly reflects it's intention.
> I hereby name 'base-image' as the smallest possible image which allows
> you to ssh into a device via it's native network interface, and install
> packages from feeds across the network into internal flash or onto an
> attached storage device.
Great news!
[]
> It is required to always be small enough to fit in the internal flash of
> an NSLU2 (as an example of the smaller end of flash sizes that OE
> supports).
So, how little size did you achieve? I wonder, if we'd finally be able
to put kiddy distros like this: http://midge.vlad.org.ua/wiki/ (didn't
merge even with OpenWRT AFAIK) to rest ;-).
[]
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Best regards,
Paul mailto:pmiscml@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-16 10:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-16 9:20 [ANN] New 'base-image' created (Was: [RFC] Add ipkg to minimal image) Rod Whitby
2007-12-16 10:04 ` Paul Sokolovsky [this message]
2007-12-16 10:08 ` Rod Whitby
2007-12-16 11:23 ` Koen Kooi
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