Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:43:40 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? No, not for that use, but for other uses, yes. But you need to specify what exactly you mean by saying minimized. I wouldn't go the road and use

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:50:35 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: If you want to strip down documentation, locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage: e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the master chroot, if you go with a buildhost): ---snip post_src_install() {

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 06 November 2006 14:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 13:50:35 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: If you want to strip down documentation, locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage: e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the master chroot, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:20:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Or use FEATURES=nodoc noman noinfo, provided you are using a recent enough portage, I'm unsure of when this was introduced. It's was introduced before portage-2.0.50. :) OK, so recent enough = 2.0.50 :) It's still not

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 06 November 2006 19:53, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 18:20:10 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Or use FEATURES=nodoc noman noinfo, provided you are using a recent enough portage, I'm unsure of when this was introduced. It's was introduced before portage-2.0.50. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:23:49 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's still not mentioned in /etc/make.conf.example :( It's in `man make.conf`. I know. The example was never intended to be complete. Still surprising though, when much newer features are documented in the example file. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 06 November 2006 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 20:23:49 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: It's still not mentioned in /etc/make.conf.example :( It's in `man make.conf`. I know. The example was never intended to be complete. Still surprising though, when

[gentoo-user] Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-02 Thread Trenton Adams
Hi Guys, Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY tiny VMs that are all independent of each other, which provide one service. For instance, I might put apache on one VM, and tomcat on another, and so on.