I should give LFS a try but I always tend to get stuck somewhere. I need to figure out how to clone the fedora or centos package repos to at least get myself started I think.
Regards, Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: Beowulf <beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org> On Behalf Of Michael Di Domenico Sent: 10 December 2020 14:13 Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] [External] RIP CentOS 8 [EXT] On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 8:05 AM Jonathan Aquilina <jaquil...@eagleeyet.net> wrote: > > A fork is something im thinking about doing in all fairness. Hoping to start > soon on it. Need to at this point figure out how to clone the repositories > and start my own testing etc. > Anyone know what the bare minimum you need in terms of packages installed to > get going with a core OS and then can slowly build on top of? honestly, I hope it works out. i often think about using the LFS project and rolling my entirely own distro. there's a lot of garbage in all these distros (and software/libraries), i would love to strip it all out. the shift in centos mantra has definitely left a vacuum in the market. as for pkg counts, i suspect you're number is ~600 or so. i strip the rhel based hpc image i build at work from the kickstart @Core group with additional subtractions (stupid firmware/etc rpms) and then build up from there with the things i definately need. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
