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On 02/23/2017 07:52 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: |
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> On Thu, 23 Feb 2017 11:53:15 +0000 |
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> Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 2017-02-23 at 02:52 -0800, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>> Support -* in order to make it easier to create profiles for |
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>>> minimal systems (especially those built entirely from binary |
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>>> packages). |
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>> Would be nice, but I don't get what the "packages" file is? |
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> That would be the 'packages' file (list of required packages)that are |
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> required for that specific profile. This patch would allow to |
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> override that packages file to build an image that only contained the |
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> minimum runtime pkgs required to perform the tasks it is suppose to. |
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> The idea being you would not need gcc, automake, ... or even portage or |
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> possibly python. The built image could of course be considered more |
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> secure not having a compiler, etc... not to mention smaller. |
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> Zac, looks fine to me. |
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Thanks, merged: |
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https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=f4b0714010f1237280fd48dcb65989679917d20a |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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