[ELDK] Creating small target rootfs in DENX

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <1211988251.22150.7.camel at pterry-fc6.micromemory.com> you wrote:
>
> It depends on your mindset. Most "embedded, no resources spare" people
> would start with SELF which gives you a boot up and busybox plus ftp and
> telnet. You throw in your application programs, daemons, utilities plus
> any shared libraries they use (if not static). Then maybe you peruse the

ACK, that's the best  way  to  go.  To  get  a  well-designed,  small
embedded root file system you should know exactly why you need to add
a specific file to the target root file system.

> Starting the other end and trying to see how much you can remove without
> something thats left breaking is somewhat more frustrating, dependency
> tracking through shared libraries etc. And most RPM packages are not
> that good at declaring dependencies that really matter... admin scripts
> for a package being dependent on little utilities from other packages,
> etc.

Trying to shrink a full-blown istribution results typically in 10...20
times the size of a file system build bottom up.

Quote:

Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything  to  add,
but when there is no longer anything to take away.


Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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