>>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael MacIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What I use, during install, is based on the "z/VM and Linux on IBM >> System z: The Virtualization Cookbook" is: > > Then, Marian Gasparovic did a lot of work to document how to further pare > it down. See section 7.5.5 for complete details (book is on > linuxvm.org/present). But the bottom line is that, for SLES 10, these > commands should lose another 100Kb to about 827M:
The problem that I (and others) ran into was that a number of these packages are part of the "Base pattern" and when you install the next service pack, those got re-installed automatically. Some of those have been removed from the Base pattern for SP2, but others have been added. And, with SP2, those packages that are in the Base pattern now have actual RPM dependencies that will prevent them from being removed after installation. Novell Technical Support considers systems that have Base pattern packages "missing" as problematic for support and updates. So, I can't recommend doing that at all. As I said in another email, work is going to be done to remove as many inter-package dependencies as possible, but that doesn't help anyone today. The "more-than-minimal" AutoYaST generator I posted on linuxvm.org is about as skinny as you can possibly get for SP2, and even avoids installing a number of packages that you really do want. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
