I was doing some weekend afternoon testing of the current yum
daily, and for cAos development. I built a small, clean
machine, to pare down further.
[herrold@router herrold]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 9447440 454392 8513140 6% /
/dev/hda1 99043 9168 84761 10% /boot
none 14660 0 14660 0% /dev/shm
Before doing the pareing further, I though I would snapshot
and print a baseline. I ran:
rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\t%{size}\n' | sort > minimum-rpm.txt
to get a manifest, to further attack. I killed of a few fat
packages, using this to hunt with.
sort +1 -n < minimum-rpm.txt
Then I went to temporarily toss on a printer configuration
tool, to get lpd and a good remote printer into /etc/printcap
[herrold@router herrold]$ sudo yum -y install redhat-config-printer-tui
Password:
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Cannot find a package matching redhat-config-printer-tui
[herrold@router herrold]$
... no worries, I thought. I'll pull the complete package. It
cannot be too big.
[herrold@router herrold]$ sudo yum -y install redhat-config-printer
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - i386 - Base
Server: Red Hat Linux 9 - Updates
Finding updated packages
Downloading needed headers
Resolving dependencies
....Dependencies resolved
I will do the following:
[install: redhat-config-printer.i386]
I will install/upgrade these to satisfy the depedencies:
[deps: perl-HTML-Parser.i386]
[deps: chkfontpath.i386]
[deps: perl-libxml-enno.noarch]
[deps: perl-HTML-Tagset.noarch]
[deps: XFree86-libs-data.i386]
[deps: gimp-print.i386]
[deps: XFree86-xfs.i386]
[deps: Omni-foomatic.i386]
[deps: perl-libwww-perl.noarch]
[deps: ttmkfdir.i386]
[deps: m4.i386]
[deps: libjpeg.i386]
[deps: mpage.i386]
[deps: ghostscript.i386]
[deps: ghostscript-fonts.noarch]
[deps: libxslt.i386]
[deps: pnm2ppa.i386]
[deps: perl-DateManip.noarch]
[deps: alchemist.i386]
[deps: PyXML.i386]
[deps: perl-libxml-perl.noarch]
[deps: VFlib2.i386]
[deps: urw-fonts.noarch]
[deps: fontconfig.i386]
[deps: perl-XML-Twig.noarch]
[deps: cups-libs.i386]
[deps: XFree86-Mesa-libGL.i386]
[deps: perl-Parse-Yapp.noarch]
[deps: perl-XML-Dumper.noarch]
[deps: perl-URI.noarch]
[deps: foomatic.i386]
[deps: perl-XML-Grove.noarch]
[deps: XFree86-truetype-fonts.i386]
[deps: XFree86-libs.i386]
[deps: libtiff.i386]
[deps: libpng.i386]
[deps: Omni.i386]
[deps: perl-XML-Encoding.noarch]
[deps: perl-XML-Parser.i386]
[deps: XFree86-font-utils.i386]
[deps: freetype.i386]
Getting perl-HTML-Parser-3.26-17.i386.rpm
... <process interrupted>
Amazing. I almost wonder how fat it would be.
So I got to scripting, and dinked out a script to determine
what is cruft, and what is needed, according to the rpm
dependency database, for a given set of packages.
script at: ftp.owlriver.com in /pub/local/ORC/k12ltsp/
as strip_to_min.sh
As a couple of the cAos people were wondering about minimal
package sets for an RPM database consistent system, I make it
available.
I think I'll feed the results to anaconda, and see
if it will boot. As as cross check, I'll use yum to remove
everything NOT listed. But not on a system I care about.
-- Russ Herrold
