[Gllug] Stripped down CentOS 5.3

[Hakuna Matata]

Thanks a Gallon Rich,

your information is most helpful to me.....

I am trying since yesterday but even time i end up with broken
system....but i am sure i will get a minimum needed...

Thanks again for the nice advise

--H


On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 08:14:55PM +0530, Hakuna Matata wrote:
>> I want to uninstall/Strip down the CentOS with all packages except the
>> below. could someone please advise or point me to the right approach.
>
> Taken literally, you want to install everything, then remove the
> listed packages?  You would do something like:
>
>  yum install '*'
>  rpm -qa | less
>  yum remove [list of packages you don't want]
>
> However that's a bit of a strange thing to want to do, because the
> whole of CentOS / RHEL is very large, and you're not saving very much
> even by removing the bloatsome JDK.
>
> If you're looking to actually minimize a CentOS install, eg. to fit it
> on some very small device, or to copy it onto some sort of small
> appliance, then I have written some tools for that purpose:
>
> http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/rpm-dependency-size-viewer-now-available/
> http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/febootstrap-minimal-now-159-mb/
>
> Depending on what you want to do, minimal RHEL appliances providing
> glibc, coreutils and some useful command-line tools start around 20-30 MB.
>
> Of course Linux can be minimized a lot further if you use specific
> minimal distributions (http://www.t2-project.org/ and many others,
> busybox, ulibc, ...), but you tend to lose the benefits of being able
> to use common tools, libraries and refer to existing bug reports.
>
> Rich.
>
> --
> Richard Jones
> Red Hat
> --
> Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
> http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
>
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug