Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 1997 05:16:56 -0800 (PST) | From | "W. Reilly Cooley" <> | Subject | Re: Packaged Kernel |
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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Neptho T. wrote:
> Same problem.. I for one absolutely refuse to have ncftp. My connection is > stable, I dont need resume, and I absolutely hate the way it looks... I > recall there have been "upgrade daemons" they would be possible to strip > to see how they utilize ftp and such, but still, same deal...
No, no, no. I'm not asking you to upgrade to NCFTP, nor am I suggesting that a packed kernel also use NCFTP. I'm just making a functionality comparison (perhaps I could have used tftp, which I believe can perform similarly if the host allows tftp access). My current ftp client is >60k. A hacked one with strictly limited functionality and added command-line-get support could take substantially less. Let's call this monster "inst_ftp", and recall that it is a *tiny* binary--with no functionality except logging in and getting a file. I'm talking about a "make config_ftp" that generates and executes a script such as:
#!/bin/sh
INSTHOST=sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/kernel/v2.0/package
inst_ftp $INSTHOST/drivers/sound/cs4323.gz &>> inst_get.log inst_ftp $INSTHOST/drivers/sound/docs.tar.gz &>> inst_get.log inst_ftp $INSTHOST/drivers/char/console.gz &>> inst_get.log etc.
In later runs of "make config_ftp", inst_get.log could be check to ascertain the necessity of a particular package. All decisions about which packages are necessary would made in "make config_ftp".
My work primarily involves the design of software installations, and we do something similar using generated DOS batch files (ugh) and Brief macros. I know if it can be done with those abominations it can be done with make and shell scripts.
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