On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:50:22PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 21:32 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > > Using > > yum --installroot=/some/where install package > > you can have something much more minimal than @core. It may not be > > fedora per se, and indeed cannot boot, but it is an install of fedora > > packages and can be useful as chroot building. > > *shrug* try it on a few packages and see what kind of fallout you get. I did and it was quite right. Some packages don't bring in a shell at all, mostly doc packages, but otherwise packages requiring glibc requires bash, and, if I recall well also coreutils. But no need for rpm, for example which is nice in a chroot. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list