[mythtv-users] Minimizing a Distribution

[HoytDuff]

On Friday 28 February 2003 11:53 am, Matthew Brichacek wrote:
> I'm up to help make a custom debian installer that will lay down an OS
> with the possible choices of "myth minimal, myth dev, myth+desktop" and
> maybe some others.
> Any other ideas, comments, flames?

I don't believe there's any necessity to maintain a full distro just for 
MythTV. Being able to "add on" to existing distros would be sufficient. I 
only have experience with Red Hat and Mandrake.

This would be easy enough to do in Red Hat or Mandrake just by modifying one 
or two files, and a simple kickstart floppy might be enough to do it with a 
"regular" version of the distro. Both allow for extra CDs, so a CD could be 
generated to contain all the MythTV-specific data. And both can use apt/urpmi 
repositories for network installs. Both of them already have "minimal" 
install options and an rpm of MythTV already exists. It shouldn't be too much 
trouble to massage the spec file and create spec files for the other MythTV 
modules along with scripits to build rpms from the CVS tree.

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