Hi John, Am Donnerstag, 13. November 2008 schrieb John Kelly: [...]
What I want to do is, build a very small server distro with as few base packages as possible. However, maybe I also want to tweak some of the base packages -- I'm not sure yet.
But most of all, I want it to be small. I will add my own local customization primarily in /usr/local from upstream and homegrown source tarballs, not rpm packages from the build service. [...]
How are you planning to create the distro? There is an example of a very minimal server created with kiwi. svn list https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/distribution/images Apart from building your custom packages you can even tweak the system when you create it with kiwi (as a preload for example) and remove files after packages are installed. As far as I know, the config ctso-minimal* are something like what you want, so you may want to look into this. If you have questions concerning kiwi, you may want to subscribe to kiwi-users@lists.berlios.de, we'll be glad to help you. Cheers, Jan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org