On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 01:37:21AM +0500, Dimitry Naldayev wrote: > > >>I am looking for a way to build a clean production system. ie system > >>without development parts.
Dimitry, I maintain several LFS-based production systems and here is what I do: 1) Build a full LFS on another box of the same architecture or older arch (like using i586 to build a system that will ultimately run on an 1686). 2) Copy only what is needed. This will take you some time and will gain you much learning as to what is truly needed. *Generally speaking*, any binary from shadow, coreutils, and bash, plus any other binary the system needs and their libraries is a good place to start. Of course, add the bootloader, kernel, and filesystem tools, as well. Then try and boot the system that has the "copies". Keep doing that until you have a working system and add anything on top of that (like iptables, ssh, etc). 3) If you do not use package management, then I would highly recommed package logging. 4) Make all updates on the full system and test well, then tar up just the updated files and copy them to the production box. A production system without a toolchain will always require a 2nd computer to make the binaries. So you just have to chose who makes your binaries; you or a distro company. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
