I basically want to define something as minimal on my own, without a pre-defined selection. I can always install minimal and remove packages, but this rather defeats what I am trying to do. Joe Marlier, Ian wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Stefan Voss [mailto:stefan.voss@itellium.com] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 11:21 AM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] package selection question
Am Donnerstag, den 29.09.2005, 17:11 +0200 schrieb Joe Landman:
Is it possible to list all the packages we want in the install rather than use one of the pre-selected package groups? I will check for dependencies, but I want to trim down the install we are doing (on a linux cluster node). Thanks. Like this?
<software> <base>Minimal+X11</base> <packages config:type="list"> <package>bindutil</package> <package>bonnie</package> ... </packages> </software>
I think the question is whether it's possible to skip the <base>Minimal</base> part, and explicitly state every package that you want installed.
Short answer, I don't think so...and you're just going to end up with the entire Minimal set anyway. There might be a couple of packages that aren't necessary, but almost everything in that set is necessary if you're going to end up with a bootable install.
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