Take a look at the catalyst project which is used for building the releases.
The cd's are built from a gentoo system stripped of the compiler etc. For example you will see from this file http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/docs/livecd-stage2_template.spec.txt that they unmerge a whole lot of packages, and delete a whole swag of directories. see the sections livecd/unmerge and livecd/empty and livecd/rm On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 14:40 +0200, Christian Affolter wrote: > Hi, > > a week ago, I posted to the gentoo-server list with some questions > regarding gentoo in an infrastructure. > I've got still one specific question which I would like to ask to a > bigger audience (sorry to those people also in gentoo-server). > > So, here's my question: > What's the best way to strip a gentoo installation down to it's base > system? > It shouldn't contain any dev tools/libs (no compiler, headers etc.) only > the necessary base system. > > > Many thanks in advance! > Christian > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
