On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:05:59 -0800
"Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders42@gmail.com> wrote:
> I love how I seem to always post on Fridays. Probably because I have
> spent the previous week or more researching and testing with less than
> optimal results.
>
> So on to my questions.
>
> I have a Linux-Vserver Debian Wheezy host up -- thank you Ben Green for
> the instructions and the kernel & utilities packages.
>
> I have created two guests so far. One to experiment with and the other
> is to be used for real.
>
> I noticed while doing the debootstrap build there seemed to be a lot
> of packages that have no reason to be in a guest. Maybe it is just my
> inexperience with the method but I don't remember seeing so many
> packages when I built CentOS guests.
>
> So I am wondering if anyone has come up with a process to remove
> unnecessary packages. I remember there was a thread or two about
> something similar so if anyone remembers about when they were I will
> search the archives.
i haven't built a guest since wheezy was released (and though i've upgraded
from squeeze to wheezy, once you clean up the installed packages on a guest,
you really don't have to do it again), but here's my command from squeeze:
* apt-get --purge remove aptitude apt-utils cpio dmidecode ifupdown info
iproute iptables iputils-ping isc-dhcp-client isc-dhcp-common
libboost-iostreams1.42.0 libcwidget3 libept1 libnfnetlink0 libsigc++-2.0-0c2a
libsqlite3-0 libssl0.9.8 libudev0 libxapian22 manpages module-init-tools
netbase net-tools tasksel tasksel-data traceroute udev vim-common vim-tiny
wget
besides some of those being specific to versions in squeeze (especially for
the libraries), you'll see that some are host-related (eg hardware &
networking, which don't generally belong in a guest) and some are personal
preference (aptitude vs apt, vim vs nano).
now that's "giving a man a fish". let me try to "teach a man to fish".
* "apt-get install deborphan"
* "deborphan -Psa" (and/or "deborphan -Psan")
* "apt-get purge ..."
* repeat
use deborphan to find packages that are not required to fulfill package
dependencies (and therefor you can uninstall them without consequence,
assuming you don't want/need the packages' functionality). the first thing i
do after installing a new debian release is install deborphan and uninstall
everything i don't need/want (found by way of deborphan and perusing "dpkg
-l" output).
> Also are thee any other ways of building Debian guests on a Debian host?
> I just read about using a tarball or tarballs. Is there a selection
> that others have built?
i don't build that many guests, so i always did it the long way (ie
debootstrap, though i do use http-replicator to reduce download
times/bandwidth).
corey
-- undefined@pobox.com > TIA, > RodReceived on Fri Jan 17 23:42:40 2014