[Mageia-dev] installing minimal is not really that minimal

Fri Mar 23 10:42:40 CET 2012

On 23 March 2012 08:32, Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+> Op vrijdag 23 maart 2012 02:08:26 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
+>> Op donderdag 22 maart 2012 00:30:53 schreef Maarten Vanraes:
+>> [...]
+>>
+>> in a chroot, i did a test with requiring plymouth or suggesting it (from
+>> dracut)
+>>
+>> the difference is:
+>>
+>> with plymouth: 301 packages/335MB
+>> without plymouth: 294 packages/294MB
+>>
+>> i'm gonna try a minimal install and see how much this'll differ
+>
+>
+> ok, i was a bit wrong:
+>
+> i have a local dracut version overridden with urpmi-proxy so as not to
+> required but suggest plymouth
+>
+>
+> testing with which packages would become requested with rpmsrate...
+>
+> in a chroot, this becomes: 246 packages/299MB
+> but, with suggests, this becomes 337 packages/385MB
+>
+> however, in an install i have 371 packages
+>
+> but the / contains 731MB
+>
+> so, where do all these extra packages come from?
+>
+> these are the different packages between installing with suggests, or chrooted
+> rpmsrate expansion with suggests...
+>
+> acpi
+> acpid
+> bc
+> coreutils-doc
+> cpufreq
+> dhcp-client
+> dhcp-common
+> dmraid
+> dmraid-events
+> gpg-pubkey
+> hdparm
+> hexedit
+> ipset
+> iptables
+> kpartx
+> lib64dmraid1
+> lib64ip4tc0
+> lib64ip6tc0
+> lib64iptables7
+> lib64mnl0
+> lib64nfnetlink0
+> locales-en
+> lsof
+> mageia-gfxboot-theme
+> mandi
+> mandi-ifw
+> microcode
+> microcode_ctl
+> procmail
+> shorewall
+> strace
+> sudo
+> tree
+>
+> for one, mageia-gfxboot-theme is here again... it didn't get selected in
+> chrooted install from manually checked rpmsrate settings... where does this
+> come from?
+>
+> is there a part in the installer that hardcodes certain packages? clearly
+> according to the ddebug.log file, this mageia-gfxboot-theme gets selected
+> during the choosePackages step and not later on...
+>
+> what am i missing here?
+>
+> does anyone have an idea? i'd like to get to the bottom of this, so a pointer
+> in a direction would help me alot...
+
+acpi* mageia-gfxboot-them are pulled by the installer
+mandi* shorewall (& thus iptables*) too.
+I've asked previously if we want a firewall installed before summary, anne &
+blino said it was OK
+microcode* is pulled b/c your CPU supports patching
+idem for cpufreq
+dhcp was selected b/c there was a network interface configured as DHCP
+dmraid (& thus kpartx) was selected b/c you've some fake raid
+(...)
+you always got gpg-pubkey, those are fake packages containing the keys
+used to verify packages
+