CentOS - May 2016 - Reduce existing CentOS 7 installation to "Minimal install" - services?

On 07/05/16 23:16, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> After some more trial and error, I managed to resolve the problem in a
> pragmatic way by doing the following after purging the system:
> 
> # yum groupinstall "Core"
> # yum groupinstall "Base"
> 
> So the missing culprit(s) must have been somewhere in the "Base"
package
> group, or at least a dependency to one or more of its packages.
Rather than remove them and add them back use yum shell to just remove
the packages not in base or core:

yum shell
remove *
install kernel @core @base
run
quit


Peter

Le 07/05/2016 14:57, Peter a ?crit :
> Rather than remove them and add them back use yum shell to just remove
> the packages not in base or core:
> 
> yum shell
> remove *
> install kernel @core @base
> run
> quit
Sounds interesting. Does this work in a script?

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On 08/05/16 01:53, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Le 07/05/2016 14:57, Peter a ?crit :
>> Rather than remove them and add them back use yum shell to just remove
>> the packages not in base or core:
>>
>> yum shell
>> remove *
>> install kernel @core @base
>> run
>> quit
> 
> Sounds interesting. Does this work in a script?
Yes, but you need to put the yum shell commands in a separate file.  See
yum-shell(8) for details.


Peter