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Hi, |
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:43:40 -0700 "Trenton Adams" |
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<trenton.d.adams@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? |
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No, not for that use, but for other uses, yes. But you need to specify |
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what exactly you mean by saying "minimized". |
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I wouldn't go the road and use LFS, as suggested here. IMHO, LFS is |
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absolutely not the way to go when in need for security updates and |
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stuff. Gentoo does it just fine. |
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OTOH, you won't be able to run Tomcat with 64MB of RAM without it |
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getting veeeery sluggish... |
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My suggestion would be to setup a "master" chroot environment on some |
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crafty machine and compile binary packages for all the software you |
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need, then distribute them to the VMs by setting up stage3's and set |
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PORTAGE_BINHOST appropriately. If you want to strip down documentation, |
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locales and stuff, have a look at the scripting facilities of portage: |
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e.g. put this into /etc/portage/bashrc (on the "master" chroot, if you |
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go with a buildhost): |
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post_src_install() { |
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rm -rf image/usr/share/man |
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rm -rf image/usr/share/doc |
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} |
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HTH, |
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-hwh |
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