On Wed, Oct 27, 2010, Nadav Har'El wrote about "Re: Small debian based server distribution": > Actually, those things *were* done, because if I remember correctly (this > was years ago, and I can't find the code now...) I used "rpm --root" to
I just found the code - it was from 2000 ;-) I see now that my script first searched for the appropriate (i.e., most recently updated) version of each rpm - because this was before the advent of yum and yum repositories. Then it built the system with rpm --root $TMPDIR. It then had an option to exclude various types of files and directories (e.g., /usr/share/man can be removed), and other cleanups (e.g., strip binaries - especially shared libraries, shorten termcap file, etc.). I also remove the RPM database because I didn't need it in the resulting system. Again, writing such a script took me a couple of days, but running it - something which I later did many times - took minutes. The beauty of Unix scripting. I wonder if, like the original poster asked, a similar tool for creating Ubunto (or Fedora, or whatever) based distributions, exists. -- Nadav Har'El | Wednesday, Oct 27 2010, 20 Heshvan 5771 [email protected] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to http://nadav.harel.org.il |apply. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
