Re: Working ia32-linux chroot image
Le dim 24/10/2004 à 07:45, Peter Nelson a écrit :
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> >Peter Nelson wrote:
> >
> >
> >>After a bit of tweaking I've gotten what I think is the smallest
> >>chroot that will still allow you to use apt-get and dpkg.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >You did not say but what was the final amount of disk space that you
> >were able to reduce your minimum system down to? My barebones
> >debootstrap install is around 110MB. But of course after I install
> >various libraries and packages such as mozilla-firefox and
> >openoffice.org the size is much larger. (I am running the 32-bit web
> >browsers to allow me to use 32-bit binary plugins. And similar
> >reasons for openoffice.org.)
> >
> >
> The compressed size is 20mb and it extracts out to ~70mb but it balloons
> up to ~100mb once you do the first `apt-get update` and it builds the
> package lists. My current chroot is ~200mb after installing a bunch of
> libraries for mplayer.
>
> >>Since it took me a while to build (debian depends don't work when
> >>you're removing half the base system)
> >>
> >>
> >Does this statement mean that depends is broken in the resulting
> >image? Or only that it was difficult to get to the result because of
> >the dependencies?
> >
> >
> Depends work in the resulting image. My problem was that packages only
> depend of binarys required to run the program, not side programs that
> are called. At first I just installed bash, apt, and dpkg with their
> direct dependencies. Dpkg ran but couldn't install anything because it
> calls tar and gzip and some packages use grep or perl in their install
> scripts, but don't depend on them. Overall I think this only shows up
Your dependency problem is due to packages marked "essential" for
Debian, that you did not care about. They need to be installed for
everything in Debian to work. Maybe you should try to fix things to
remove some of those dependencies?
To find a list of those, install package "grep-dctrl" and run the
following command:
$ grep-available -F Essential yes -s Package | cut -b10-
> when doing as minimal of an install as I did so I don't think it's worth
> the effort to fix.
[..]
Hope it helps
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Jérôme Warnier
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