Fady Fawzy wrote: > Dear all , > > I'm going to build LFS system as a Virtual appliance and i put a > challenge for myself to build the appliance as small as possible . It > will handle some web app. ,JAVA ,and C++ programs . > > I'm now in Ch6 in LFS 6.7 , So any suggestions about any un-needed > tools , or any suggestions about any packages that i can ignore it to > make the appliance small as possible. > > Also if i going to build LFS to handle NTP protocol only ,Am i need > all this packages and features.
There is a big difference between a development system and a cut down appliance. I'd suggest leaving everything in for a development environment, but you can remove a lot from an appliance: man pages gcc autotools m4 bison less make man-db tar texinfo vim all can probably be removed from an appliance. You can remove several others depending on what you want your appliance to do. Of course you will need to add samba and java if you want those capabilities. You may want to investigate busybox or even Tom's Root/Boot Disk, http://www.toms.net/rb/ -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
