Re: How to get a list of minimal Potato packages
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 07:39:53AM +0100, Chris Kenrick wrote:
> My goal is to rebuild some servers that are running Woody via Potato.
Running woody, you can try out the debootstrap tool, and build a
temporary chrooted potato installation so that you can see what it's
like. Something like this should do you:
woody# apt-get install debootstrap
woody# debootstrap potato /chroot/potato http://ftp.debian.org/debian
# insert your mirror here
woody# chroot /chroot/potato
potato# dpkg -l
> The servers are at the moment running lots of unnecessary crud
> (installed on top of base), so I needed to derive a list of base
> packages so I can work out what extra needs installing. Fortunately,
> Karsten's magic command line suggestion should solve it I think.
Unfortunately, 'Section: base' is largely a historical relic, and isn't
entirely representative of what's installed by default. Some packages in
the base tarball are in sections like admin, libs, net, and even x11
(xviddetect).
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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