Re: [zones-discuss] Package minimization question

2008-12-23 Thread Christine Tran
My apologies for being late replying. I've thought of posting the cluster I use but it seems that everyone has has a special build particular to their needs.For example, most people would not use kerberos, but it's in rnet. You could make a case for SUNWbip, SUNWrcmdc, NTP ... how much do you rea

Re: [zones-discuss] Package minimization question

2008-12-17 Thread Fredrich Maney
I used the following package list in a jumpstart profile when building a cluster in the lab recently. There is still quite a bit of cruft that could be trimmed out of this list - I forced to add quite a few packages to resolve dependencies for the "required for our standard build" junk (mostly the

Re: [zones-discuss] Package minimization question

2008-12-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Christine Tran wrote: > Cross-posted, pardon me for duplicates. > > I'm building a system starting with SUNWCrnet, it needs zones and TX. >x [P] SUNWj5rt JDK 5.0 Runtime Env. (1.5.0_14) [...] > I wonder if the X Window, Motif, CDE and Text Layout is *really* > necessary. I don't h

Re: [zones-discuss] Package minimization question

2008-12-12 Thread Glenn Faden
Christine, From the package list I assume you are running Solaris 10, not OpenSolaris. I suppose you can leave out the X11-related packages, but it isn't a valid assumption that a headless system doesn't need these packages. X11 applications can be remotely displayed using X protocol, or via X

[zones-discuss] Package minimization question

2008-12-12 Thread Christine Tran
Cross-posted, pardon me for duplicates. I'm building a system starting with SUNWCrnet, it needs zones and TX. Using the fine Solaris Package Companion tool, I'm down to the following: [C] SUNWCzoneXXSolaris Zones [P] SUNWzoner PASSEDSolaris Zones (Root)