[Mageia-dev] Minimal mageia install

Bruno Cornec Bruno.Cornec at hp.com
Fri Oct 26 01:26:56 CEST 2012


Hello,

Damien Lallement said on Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:28:14PM +0200:
> Le 23/10/2012 15:23, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
> >On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec at hp.com> wrote:
> >>However, I'm ending up with 580 packages, among them a lot of X11
> >>content, whereas I want a text base install only.
> >Suggests?
> >There is an option to not use them
> 
> For auto_inst.cfg.pl:
> 'no_suggests' => 1,

With that I passed from 580 to 398 (I added 6 to my list). So I still
have a problem I do not really understand. I included (IMO) no X11
program, and however still get lots of x11 related stuff. Now putting
plymouth apart, for example I see:

# urpme libx11-common
Pour satisfaire les dépendances, les 4 paquetages suivants vont être
désinstallés (3.7Mo):
  libx11-common-1.4.99.1-4.mga2.x86_64
  x11-server-xorg-1.11.4-2.1.mga2.x86_64
   (en raison du manque de libx11-common)
  xdm-1.1.11-5.mga2.x86_64
   (car xinitrc > 2.4.19-9 est non satisfait)
  xinitrc-2.4.21-4.mga2.noarch
   (en raison du manque de x11-server-xorg)
Supprimer 4 paquetages ? (o/N)

None of these 4 are coming from me, nor should come from suggests now
that I do not include them. So how can I get them ?

Same for:
# urpme x11-server-common
Pour satisfaire les dépendances, les 5 paquetages suivants vont être
désinstallés (4.1Mo):
  x11-driver-input-evdev-2.7.0-1.mga2.x86_64
   (car xserver-abi(xinput-13) >= 0 est non satisfait,
    en raison du manque de x11-server-common)
  x11-server-common-1.11.4-2.1.mga2.x86_64
  x11-server-xorg-1.11.4-2.1.mga2.x86_64
   (car x11-server-common == 1.11.4-2.1.mga2 est non satisfait,
    en raison du manque de x11-driver-input-evdev)
  xdm-1.1.11-5.mga2.x86_64
   (car xinitrc > 2.4.19-9 est non satisfait)
  xinitrc-2.4.21-4.mga2.noarch
   (car x11-server-common >= 1.4.2 est non satisfait,
    en raison du manque de x11-server-xorg)
Supprimer 5 paquetages ? (o/N)

So I could remove them, but why are they coming first ?

# urpmi_rpm-find-leaves
acpi
acpid
basesystem
dhcp-client
gpg-pubkey
kernel-desktop-latest === Not in my list
kernel-server-latest
locales-fr
mageia-gfxboot-theme  === Not in my list
mandi-ifw             === Not in my list
microcode_ctl         === Not in my list
mondo
ntp
numlock
openssh-server
pm-utils
postfix
shorewall
squidguard
sudo
tmpwatch
xdm                  === Not in my list

What is triggering the fact they are installed ?

Surprisingly also I get these which are simply unnecessary on my
firewall:

alsa-utils-1.0.25-4.mga2
aumix-text-2.9.1-1.mga2
desktop-common-data-2-10.mga2
desktop-file-utils-0.20-1.1.mga2
fontconfig-2.8.0-6.mga2
hicolor-icon-theme-0.12-3.mga1      
lib64alsa2-1.0.25-3.mga2
lib64x11_6-1.4.99.1-4.mga2 (and a lot of libx stuff)
libalsa-data-1.0.25-3.mga2
mageia-theme-common-1.5.0.28-4.mga2
mageia-theme-Default-1.5.0.28-4.mga2
mkfontdir-1.0.7-1.mga2
mkfontscale-1.1.0-1.mga2
rmt-0.4b42-2.mga1
sound-scripts-0.62-7.mga2
tcb-1.1-1.mga2
thai-data-0.1.14-1.mga1
x11-data-bitmaps-1.1.1-1.mga1 (and a lot of w11 stuff)
xdg-user-dirs-0.14-1.mga2
xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.rc1.2.mga2
xdm-1.1.11-5.mga2
xdpyinfo-1.3.0-1.mga2
xinitrc-2.4.21-4.mga2
xkbcomp-1.2.3-1.mga2
xli-20061110-7.mga2
xmodmap-1.0.5-1.mga1
xprop-1.2.1-1.mga2
xrdb-1.0.9-2.mga1
xset-1.2.2-1.mga2
xsetroot-1.1.0-1.mga1

Trying to urpme each of them gives:

# urpme mageia-theme-common-1.5.0.28-4.mga2
La désinstallation du paquetage suivant rendra votre système instable
  basesystem-2-6.mga2.x86_64
   (en raison du manque de kernel)

Or
# urpme libalsa-data
La désinstallation du paquetage suivant rendra votre système instable
  basesystem-minimal-2-6.mga2.x86_64
   (en raison du manque de initscripts,
    en raison du manque de cronie,
    en raison du manque de rpm,
    en raison du manque de util-linux,
    en raison du manque de mount,
    en raison du manque de losetup,
    en raison du manque de shadow-utils,
    en raison du manque de setup,
    en raison du manque de stat,
    en raison du manque de coreutils,
    en raison du manque de passwd,
    en raison du manque de gzip,
    en raison du manque de less)

depending on the package.

For me the best is:
# urpme thai-data-0.1.14-1.mga1
La désinstallation du paquetage suivant rendra votre système instable
  basesystem-2-6.mga2.x86_64
   (en raison du manque de kernel)
# rpm -qi thai-data-0.1.14-1.mga1 | grep Summary
Summary     : Thai language support data
# rpm -qi lib64thai0| grep Summary
Summary     : Thai language support routines

Isn't this one very puzzling no ?

Any idea on how to progress from here is welcome.
Any hidden auto_inst.pl option that would help avoid X11 ?
Bruno.
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