Hi folks,
I'm trying to write some howtos. For Debian lots of things
are easy (because that's what I use everyday). For
RedHat/CentOS/Fedora, I want to create an environment I can play in --
a chroot environment using yum, and so on.
How can I install the bare minimum --- something like the
result of debootstrap --- just enough to run yum? As it'll be in a
chroot I don't need any network utilities, etc,
Here's what I tried:
Boot qemu on an empty disc using the first installation
cdrom. Install with everything possible turned off. The result was
over 1G, and stuff like X libraries, spelling checkers in x86 and
x86_64 versions, etc., were still installed. In fact there were quite
a few x86 versions of things installed unnecessarily. I did a yum
remove *.i386 and removed 60 packages straight away.
I could then shutdown qemu, loopback mount the filesystem and
copy the files into a directory ready for chroot.
But I'm sure there's other unnecessary stuff in
there. Removing all the autosetup of networking gets rid of
another 21 packages; and then I had to add gcc, binutils and
rpmutils; leaving me a chroot of 1.2G. By comparison, a
minimal debian install is 93M -- enough to run apt-get.
Any ideas?
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