| Rich Freeman on 11 Nov 2011 06:31:26 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Linux EMC and Headless Systems |
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Eric H. Johnson <ejohnson@camalytics.com> wrote: > Also while running on gentoo may solve the problem of > dependencies, I still need to generate the installable packages A Gentoo package already exists at: http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/emcinfo.pl?EmcOnGentoo (It is the last code box on the page. Note that a "package" on Gentoo can just be a few lines of shell script as Gentoo "packages" don't actually contain binaries.) If you're talking about a tarball of the actual installed files, you can get that pretty trivially on Gentoo. You can tell the package manager to generate a binary package during build, or you can just run quickpkg to turn an installed package into a binary package (with or without config files). Of course, if you plan to install that on some other system you'd have to ensure that all the required libraries are available and at compatible versions, or you'd need to statically link it. If you meant that you need to generate Ubuntu packages then Gentoo is going to be of little help except in demonstrating that it can be done - the problems you're running into probably aren't even in the EMC packaging per-se, unless in its dependency selection. As others have commented you might have to get Ubuntu to split some of their packages to accomplish your goals, or at least set services to not run. Oh, and none of my comments are meant to suggest that Ubuntu does things "wrong" - Gentoo and Ubuntu have different goals and their designs simply reflect this. Ubuntu is pretty heavily weighted towards the desktop, so issues like packages tending to pull in X11 or OpenOffice aren't really a big problem since 95% of their users are running those anyway. Gentoo tends to be more "purist" around dependencies since the minimum install is supposed to be very light (well, if you can call gcc and binutils light - though you can safely strip those out of a system if you build your packages elsewhere and install them as binaries). My personal sense is that something like EMC would do better to target Debian/Gentoo or another less-desktopish distro than Ubuntu, but I'm not the one who has to maintain it. Rich ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug