From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ElgYv-0003FU-Id for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:49:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBC5mhTs005883; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:48:43 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBC5k5OF030500 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:46:06 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1ElgVh-0005Hl-Cx for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 05:46:05 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1ElgUv-0005Fx-Vq for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:45:17 +0100 Received: from 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([206.163.248.179]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:45:17 +0100 Received: from dirtyepic.sk by 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:45:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: R Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Creating a Sketeton System Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:44:16 -0600 Message-ID: References: <36babadf0512111913k4d91d9b4m@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206-163-248-179.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.6a1 (X11/20051211) In-Reply-To: <36babadf0512111913k4d91d9b4m@mail.gmail.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: d0910710-a795-44c1-99ec-097e47cca7a9 X-Archives-Hash: bf65824cedbf0a207706ad4f9c3164b1 George Prowse wrote: > After some talk in the forums a point came up that we need a way to > reduce the long used gentoo system to a bare point before X but after > any baselayout upgrade had been applied. > > This script would enable two things: a person to rebuild his system > after a library malfunction and also if a person wanted to switch from > 100% gtk to 100% qt or vice-versa. > > At present we have depclean to reduce anything past xorg-x11 but that > doesn't get as far as anything that doesn't rely on a package being able > to depend on an GUI, libraries need to be brought in and all but > baselayout needs to be cleaned out so a "bare bone" is left. > > This would be useful as an arch tester because snapshots could be made > of various stages and tested. Stage4 maybe? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Custom_Stage4 making snapshots of lvm volumes with devmap is also pretty nice. --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list