Re: [suse-security] Minimum package selection

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 March 2003 09:12 am, lars-lists@pt.lu wrote:

As I only want to install the strict MINIMUM among the packages available, I wonder if anyone has done the same before, i.e. selected a minimum set of packages which allows you to boot your box correctly and not much more.

To do this I have installed the Suse minimum installation and deselected lots of packages, but I am not sure whether I can still take away some more packages.....

I've written a tool for determining the minimum requirements of packages. You will need the Python RPM module here: ftp://ftp.funktronics.ca/pub/rpm/SuSE-8.1/i586-f/rpm-python-3.0.6-1.i586.rpm Here's the script: http://www.funktronics.ca/scripts/mininstall Basically, run 'mininstall ' and it will list all of the RPMs required for that package. You can use this to determine what RPMs are needed for whatever applications/servers you want. Once you have that list, you can simply remove everything else. A bit of bash can get you there fairly quickly. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+depn+FOexA3koIgRAotPAKCaqE5vctf51x0i51RVaoRnIBVq6ACffg2Z 9l7/YymoZ52en3uUT4qfFlA= =UcC7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----