nixpkgs/boot/default.nix
Armijn Hemel fe355bba78 replace a lot of tools we initially use with statically linked versions.
This reduces the ramdisk installer size with a few megabytes when gzipped,
but with about 40 MB when unpacked in memory.

There are a few improvements possible:

- strip the binaries. This saves another few MBs.
- only copy the binaries we really need to /bin or /sbin. This could reduce
the size of the installer a lot, especially with util-linux, of which we
don't use that many tools at all.
- try to move some packages we link with glibc right now (like util-linux) to
dietlibc. This will not work for bash, already tried that.
- try to use busybox as a replacement for everything.

svn path=/nixu/trunk/; revision=4428
2005-12-24 11:50:42 +00:00

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{ stdenv, kernel, bash, bashStatic, coreutils, findutilsWrapper, utillinux, utillinuxStatic, sysvinit, e2fsprogs
, nettools, nix, subversion, gcc, wget, which, vim, less, screen, openssh
, binutils, strace, shadowutils, iputils, gnumake, curl, gnused, gnugrep
, gnutar, gzip, mingettyWrapper, grubWrapper, parted, module_init_tools, hotplug
, udev, dhcpWrapper, man, nano}:
derivation {
name = "boot";
system = stdenv.system;
builder = ./builder.sh;
boot = ./boot.sh;
halt = ./halt.sh;
login = ./login.sh;
env = ./env.sh;
inherit stdenv kernel bash bashStatic coreutils findutilsWrapper utillinux sysvinit
e2fsprogs nettools nix subversion gcc wget which vim less screen
openssh binutils strace shadowutils iputils gnumake curl gnused
gnutar gnugrep gzip mingettyWrapper grubWrapper parted module_init_tools
udev dhcpWrapper man nano;
}