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Miles O'Neal wrote:
> Salvador Aguinaga said...
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> |I've wondered if any of you have used scientific linux on a x86 hardware to
> |run a single application ( like an embedded OS ) and disable updates and
> |remove unneeded packages?
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> Sure, at least a dozen times.
>
> |Or if you there is a better alternative to accomplish the same thing.
>
> That depends on what you are trying to do with it.
> For instance when I needed a bridging firewall a
> few years back, there was no east way to do that
> with SL (I tried for 2 day), so I gave up and used
> freesco.
>
> But, just for example, we've done this with DMZ
> systems, fileservers, and a handful of others.
> Very straightforward; just install what you need,
> remove the extras it installed anyway, and only
> turn on the minimum services necessary.
>
> Update manually as needed.
>
> Works fine.
>
If SL does what you want, that's fine. For a smaller image, rpm supports
omitting documentation, though I haven't seen a way of doing that via
yum. It's something you might wish to explore.
Debian has an rpmstrap script that's part of something else that can be
used to create a (CentOS and so probably SL) image. That could be
brutalised to do what you want.
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John
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