-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com> wrote: >> rpm -qf `which <command>` > > Nice. Thanks Frank and Jim > > What about the minimal install? Is it possible? I don't need kerberos, > ldap, and a lot of other things. > > Best regards, > Norberto > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I was just playing with this myself this week. For CentOS 5.2, the very minimal install is 88 RPMs. This is missing things you will need (like openssh, passwd, yum, etc) but its basically the bare-bones install. If you statically assign IP addresses and don't care about DHCP, you can reduce the list one more and get rid of 'dhclient'. All other RPMs are required because of the dependencies that are laid out. Various other things will be required as you add some of the useful utilities back in. The list of RPMS are: audit-libs basesystem bash beecrypt bzip2-libs centos-release centos-release-notes chkconfig coreutils cpio cracklib cracklib-dicts db4 device-mapper device-mapper-event device-mapper-multipath dhclient diffutils dmraid e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs elfutils-libelf ethtool expat filesystem findutils gawk gdbm glib2 glibc glibc-common grep grub gzip info initscripts iproute iputils kernel keyutils-libs kpartx krb5-libs less libacl libattr libcap libgcc libselinux libsepol libstdc++ libsysfs libtermcap lvm2 m2crypto MAKEDEV mcstrans mingett mkinitrd mktemp module-init-tools nash ncurses net-tools openssl pam pcre popt procps psmisc python readline redhat-logos rootfiles rpm rpm-libs sed setup shadow-utils sqlite sysklogd SysVinit tar termcap tzdata udev util-linux vim-minimal zlib If you are building a Kickstart file, here are useful %packages and %post sections: %packages --nobase kernel-PAE - -audit-libs-python - -checkpolicy - -dhcpv6-client - -ecryptfs-utils - -ed - -file - -gnu-efi - -gpm - -hdparm - -kbd - -libhugetlbfs - -libselinux-python - -libsemanage - -nspr - -nss - -openssh - -openssh-clients - -openssh-server - -perl - -policycoreutils - -prelink - -selinux-policy - -selinux-policy-targeted - -setools - -setserial - -sysfsutils - -tcl - -udftools - -vim-enhanced %post rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 yum -y remove kernel iptables slang usermode wireless-tools yum -y remove cryptsetup-luks dbus dmidecode hwdata libgpg-error libusb yum -y remove libvolume_id libxml2-python pciutils yum -y remove cyrus-sasl-lib logrotate Packages that are in the Core group tagged as 'mandatory' will get installed even if you specify them with '-' in the %packages section thus the need to explicitly remove them in the %post section. Packages in the Core group tagged as 'default' can be configured to not be installed by subtracting them in the %packages section. After the install finishes, you can run the following rpm command to get rid of yum stuff if desired: rpm -e libxml2 python-elementtree python-iniparse python-sqlite python-urlgrabber rpm-python yum yum-metadata-parser This 'minimal' load is mainly for educational purposes just to see how small it can get (about 300MB) -- its not very useful. A useful minimal load will be somewhere around 150-200 packages depending on what utilities you want to include. - -- David Goldsmith -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJzqJV417vU8/9QfkRAjYPAKC3k6UMS2qKA6P8BcXYEtDnOWczJQCcCGLG lpoKd9kbkc3Hw6HyKgmdf30= =3/Px -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----