On 3/26/12, Solar Designer <solar_at_private> wrote: > Hi Zenny, > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 08:43:41PM +0000, Zenny wrote: >> I would like to know if there are scripts to cutomize/minimize the Owl >> to fit into a small sized USB stick or CF (something like voyage >> linux) without any overheads of the extra libraries? > > I am not aware of existing scripts to do that, yet it is fairly easily > done by editing installorder.conf or/and by removing some packages after > install. A good start is setting the SKIP_EXTRA=yes environment > variable for your "make installworld" run. This will skip packages > prefixed with "E:" in installorder.conf (there are currently only a few > of those, though). Then you may "rpm -e" all packages with "-devel" in > their names, or you may have removed them from installorder.conf. All > "-doc" packages are marked "E:", so if you did the SKIP_EXTRA=yes thing, > then you don't need to remove them manually, but if you did not, you may. > Now, without "-devel" a few other packages no longer make sense - most > notably, you may want to remove gcc and likely its prerequisites (see the > installorder.conf line with gcc on it), kernel-headers, and maybe also > things like bison, flex, make. Maybe we should add support for a > SKIP_DEVEL setting to make this easier, although the development vs. not > split is not exact (it varies by person and intended use for the system - > e.g., is m4 a development tool only or also a sysadmin tool?) Oh, and > we're already using both "D:" and "d:" (for different other things), so > I'm not sure what the new single-letter prefix corresponding to > SKIP_DEVEL should be (maybe "V"). ;-) Thanks for the detailed explanation. Very saturating! Actually, I was expecting some script equivalent to NanoBSD (you know what I meant) in Owl which can produce CF images like voyage linux, based on debian-live, for 32- and 64-bit archs. Is there something in the making? > >> Besides, is there a brief description of rebuilding kernel? The one >> that is found in the wiki seems to have been not updated for a long >> time. Thanks! > > Yet the description on the wiki is up to date, except only for the > ever-changing version numbers. > > http://openwall.info/wiki/Owl/kernel-build Thank you, enjoyed reading and try to do something and report back. Thanks for the great security work that Owl team is doing, making GNU/Linux as secure as OpenBSD! :D /z > > Alexander >Received on Sun Mar 25 2012 - 23:42:09 PDT
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