Re: [gentoo-user] idea about small footprint gentoo

["W.Kenworthy" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

I saw a post (I think it was this list, and the following was from
memory) a month or two back of someone who did just this.  They
installed with a past date, then ran the system for a week or so and
exercised it extensively.  They then did the remove everything based on
atime that hadnt been touched.

The result was very successful, but they did come across the odd file
they had to put back. Testing after the initial delete was considerable.

>From my point of view, such a "stripped system" would always be
classified as unstable as you never know when it will ask for a file you
removed as it is just too complex to check every circumstance.

BillK


On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 23:07 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 12:01 +0200, Sascha Lucas wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm thinking of a small footprint gentoo produced in this way:
> > 
> > 1) install everything you need
> > 2) note current system time
> > 3) reboot and do all operations you need in this small gentoo
> > 4) remount with noatime
> > 5) find all files in the FS that have an atime before the system time you
> >     note in 2)
> > 6) delete all files found in 5); they were not accessed, so we don't need
> >     them?
> > 
> > What do you think about this? Does it have a chance to work?
> 
> no
> 
> what about stuff that doesn't run all the time? stuff that cro needs
> etc?
> 
> look at catalyst, it is the tool for building custom gentoo installs.
> 
> > 
> > THX,
> > 
> > Sascha.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Air conditioned environment - do not open windows!
> 
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