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For that I'd like to have a very minimal install. +</I>><i> > +</I>><i> > However, I'm ending up with 580 packages, among them a lot of X11 +</I>><i> > content, whereas I want a text base install only. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I had the same experience with Mageia 1 - the lowest I could get was +</I>><i> somewhere in the high 500. I spent some time tinkering with that but +</I>><i> whatever I tried, whichever package I wanted to remove, I always ended +</I>><i> up with the removal of part of the base system. In the end I gave up +</I>><i> (possibly due to lack of knowledge) :( +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I just checked Olivier's suggestion, ending up with some 270 packages... +</I> +Well I *know* i can do better: + +sudo chroot /users/rpmbootstrap/mageia/2/x86_64 /bin/bash +bash-4.2# rpm -aq | wc -l +172 + +That chroot is made by a tool I'm developing to create build +environments for multiple Linux distributions (supports Fedora, CentOS, +Mageia, Mandriva, OpenSuSE, debian, Ubuntu). Cf: rpmbootstrap in Mageia +(SVN at <A HREF="http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/rpmbootstrap">http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/rpmbootstrap</A> tar +at <A HREF="ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/src/rpmbootstrap-0.12.1.tar.gz">ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/src/rpmbootstrap-0.12.1.tar.gz</A>). + +The base approach is to cpio first a list of packages (the minimal one +which allows urpmi to work) and then reinstall them running urpmi. +List of packages is at: +<A HREF="http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/pb-modules/etc/pb.conf">http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/pb-modules/etc/pb.conf</A> +line 389/390. + +So I was hoping to get near that number after all. Of course a chroot +doesn't require a boot loader, so all the packages brought due to the +install of grub are creating the extra blurb. + + +So I already have one mean to make it as small as possible. Now I'm +working on another case, where I just use auto_inst. So I'd like to be +able to use all the params available that could make me as near as +possible of 170 + grub and its deps (the real ones). + +Will answer to some other mail in // +Bruno. +-- +Open Source & Linux Profession Lead EMEA <A HREF="http://opensource.hp.com">http://opensource.hp.com</A> +EMEA Open Source HPISC Chief Technologist <A HREF="http://hpintelco.net">http://hpintelco.net</A> +FLOSS projects: <A HREF="http://mondorescue.org">http://mondorescue.org</A> <A HREF="http://project-builder.org">http://project-builder.org</A> +Musique ancienne? <A HREF="http://www.musique-ancienne.org">http://www.musique-ancienne.org</A> <A HREF="http://www.medieval.org">http://www.medieval.org</A> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="019494.html">[Mageia-dev] Minimal mageia install +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="019518.html">[Mageia-dev] fdisk or gparted +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#19497">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#19497">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#19497">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#19497">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |