Author: Norman White Date: To: dyne3 Subject: [dyne:3] synaptic progress
For standalone Synaptic package manager without using a chroot system:
-So far my bump is with Synaptic's writes to the "var" directory.
Apparently, no dyne-mechanism is available to overlay unionfs on
dynemodules.
-Attempted to install Synaptic's requirements into dyne's "/usr "
(because of its writable unionfs overlay), but Synaptic's requirements
run out of space.
-Also, I combined the dyne initrd contents together with the
de-squashed "/usr" into a nest and tried to copy Synaptic's
requirements,--and 'chrooted' to execute Synaptic. --No success.
-I will try to 'dd' a file to a capacity of something like 10gigs,
ext3 it, and copy sys(dyne's de-squashed /usr) into it with all of
Synaptic's requirements and re-squash, --and replace the default
"dyne.sys" and hopefully my dyne will boot. (I always have boot
problems when I change and re-squash my "sys"); although it is been
advised that it would be harder to merge these changes into the
'main'.
I also have a working, --albeit not 'dyne-ideal' , read only module
that preps a 'chroot-Synaptic-system' in a nest. (if such is allowed
as a last resort)