[Helidelinux-devel] Re: Helide linux

[Hui Z. <zh...@wa...>]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:11:38AM -0500, Bennett Todd wrote:
> Thanks for Cc-ing me into this dialogue.
You are welcome.
> 
> My "bent" linux is based on bpm, the Bent Package Manager. Loosely
> inspired by rpm, it currently has really just one tool, bpmbuild,
> which takes a spec file (as minimalist as possible, in OGDL) and
> creates a binary installable package that's a cpio.bz2. It's still
> in rough prototype form, a rewrite will be needed before it's a
> full-function package managment system. I'm focusing now more on the
> packages than on the package manager. The recipes, you might say.
Very intersting. So for your final distribution, is it just a collection
of binary bpm packages? and both the source file and spec file are just
used as tools to produce bpm packages? From the file name, seems the
package is a compressed cpio archive, what's the major difference from
rpm?
> 
> At this point I have a bit over a hundred packages wrapped, if only
> I can find a nice uninterrupted wad of time I hope to move my
> primary workstation over to bent linux soon, I think I've got
> everything built that I need for day-to-day use.
> 
> While bent linux is definitely inspired by LFS, and borrows some
> bits from it, it's certainly not LFS. For starters, I have no glibc;
> instead, I'm using uClibc. With as few exceptions as possible, I'm
> trying to completely avoid dynamic linking; only dev systems need to
> have libc installed at all, and upgrading libc is not scary.
> 
> I also have had such unpleasant experiences with i18n that I'm
> disabling it wherever I can in the builds.

When you feel comfortable, I would like to  be a tester for your ``bent''
system.:)

-Hui