https://ostree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ This looks quite similar to what the OP wants. Although I'm not sure of the licensing issues.
Regards, Utkarsh Anand On Jun 4, 2017 23:47, "Emmanuel Dreyfus" <m...@netbsd.org> wrote: > Thor Lancelot Simon <t...@panix.com> wrote: > > > One key idea that may help you is not mine -- it's due to Matt Thomas. > It is > > the idea of, making an *additional* bunch of sets files specifying > > exactly and only the parts of the system you need. Then install those > > (embedbase.txt, embedetc.tgz, etc.) rather than base, etc, and so forth. > > That will give you a simple, maintainable way to build a NetBSD that > > does what you need, is still a coherent whole rather than a pile of > > disjoint "system packages", and is much smaller. > > One interesting feature is also to crunchgen(1) binaries to reduce > memory footprint, which is interesting when booting a kernel with > ramdisk. It works nicely, but is not documented very much. > > -- > Emmanuel Dreyfus > http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz > m...@netbsd.org >
