[Mageia-dev] Minimal mageia install

Wed Oct 24 16:08:35 CEST 2012

Hello,
+
+Wolfgang Bornath said on Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:54:38PM +0200:
+
+> 2012/10/23 Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec at hp.com>:
+> > Helo,
+> >
+> > I'm in the process of redeploying automatically my firewall machine,
+> > using Mageia. For that I'd like to have a very minimal install.
+> >
+> > However, I'm ending up with 580 packages, among them a lot of X11
+> > content, whereas I want a text base install only.
+> 
+> I had the same experience with Mageia 1 - the lowest I could get was
+> somewhere in the high 500. I spent some time tinkering with that but
+> whatever I tried, whichever package I wanted to remove, I always ended
+> up with the removal of part of the base system. In the end I gave up
+> (possibly due to lack of knowledge)  :(
+> 
+> I just checked Olivier's suggestion, ending up with some 270 packages...
+
+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 http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/rpmbootstrap tar
+at ftp://ftp.project-builder.org/src/rpmbootstrap-0.12.1.tar.gz).
+
+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:
+http://trac.project-builder.org/browser/devel/pb-modules/etc/pb.conf
+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.
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