[Voyage-linux] 0.8.0: pppd still missing, other utils

[Adrian Reyer]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 07:13:37PM +0200, Teco Boot wrote:
> The problem is my install & maintenance scripts need these tools.
> bzip2 is a no-brainer. How to load a tar.bz2 voyage image with default voyage?

Probably no .bz2 at all. But as said, I don't care to much about that
part.

> >>  ifplugd
> > I certainly don't want to have that ona  default install box.
> > A ifplugd replacement that keeps dhcpclient doing its job would be OK.
> Do you use dhcp? How?

Calling 'pump' manually for one-shot stuff?
Adding
  auto eth0
  iface eth0 inet dhcp
to /etc/network/interfaces for permanent dhcp?
I am not aware I ever had to add packages to be able to do DHCP on a
voyage linux box.

> You could start from scratch :-)
> The nice thing about Voyage is that it a more or less complete Debian, 
> with updates so it can run on embedded systems. If you want something
> small, why not pick a tiny distribution, like OpenWRT?

I hope you are not to serious there. I use voyage exactly because it is
based on Debian and enables me to use CF cards in a not-so-destructive
manner. Debian is bloated for a minimal system already, no need to add
more things. You can perfectly select a matching task if you want more
than a minimal system, Debian makes these things easy, especially
because of a mostly carefully crafted dependency management.
I know OpenWRT and it is not suitable for a longterm production system.
No/rare updates and bad dependencies.

Regards,
	Adrian
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