Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2217 mails)

[CyberOrg <jigish.gohil@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/27/07, Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Look at www.thinstation.org. They have a thinstation-o-matic where you
> can make these images over the net. In our use, we download the
> thinstation source and make images locally.
>
> I think one big way they make the image smaller is the use of busybox.
> That alone must account for many MB.
>
>
> >
> > Our TODO: http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/KIWI-LTSP-Tasks
> >
> > It is shrinking at a rapid pace, so slimming down would be targeted
> > very soon. You can check this and suggest the packages that could be
> > dropped.
> >
> > https://forgesvn1.novell.com/viewsvn/kiwi-ltsp/trunk/kiwi-ltsp/ltsp/suse-10.3/config.xml?view=markup
>
> Am I correct in that the build is from sources, not from an installed
> OpenSUSE?
>

The kiwi uses distribution packages, no compiling. That XML file is
the configuration used that tells kiwi what packages need to be
installed in the image.

Cheers

-J
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