loading fresh system from rpm list?

[R P Herrold]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Steven A. DuChene wrote:

> The original system is a VERY minimal install and that is what
> the owner wants me to mimic on the second system. He very carefully
> went through and removed any packages he did not absolutely need
> so rather than duplicate that work I thought I could somehow just
> work from his list of rpms on the original system.

I would worry that he broke dependencies unless he was using 
an audit tool.  To trust, but verify, see:

 	http://www.owlriver.com/tips/broken-system/

and I would like a pink pony.  ;)  As no such ponies are on 
my horizon, this paragraph was there for just that reason

 	http://www.herrold.com/pink-150x.jpg

I am also the initial reference author for the 'tiny centos' 
page, describing a methodology to getting to small installs

 	http://www.owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos/

I'll probably re-work this email series up into another tip.

Dennis Kibbe also made me do some work on the weekend with a 
question he raised.   No rest for the weary.

 	http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities

>> Then on the clone, run:
>> 	rpm -qa --qf '%{name}\n' | grep -v kernel | sort |  \
>> 		uniq >  /tmp/rpmlist.txt
>>
>> 	diff -u rpmlist.txt /tmp/rpmlist.txt
>>
>> and
>> 	rpm -e any strays present on the clone,
>>
>> and note anything not present, and repair to taste [this can
>> happen over time as the items in a point respin change, or if
>> a non-CentOS archive is used]

We have a product we use for testing such stripped boxes, as 
well as for production, and we make it available to customers:

 	http://www.pmman.com/

-- Russ herrold
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