Small debian based server distribution

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 08:15:43PM +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hmmm.... you actually did a BadThing(tm) -- totally bypassing the package
> > management mechanisms:
> >
> 
> I think his idea was not to have the APT/RPM packages in this system,
> shaving off some few megabytes.

The rpm/dpkg/yum/apt programs don't take much space on their own.
However their database does.

What can you do?

1. Both yum and apt store the data they "cache" on the disk. IIRC
that can safely reside in a ramdisk. It maens longer download times if
you need to update packages.

2. Use a smaller packages repository. Maybe use a partial repo of your
distro's. There are ways to do that.

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