gxc422 wrote:

 

Would it be possible to remove certain packages from the minimal pattern group in SUSE?

 

In /opt/vmware/etc/build/templates/suse/11/1_x86_64/build_profile.xml, I see the following:

 

      <vadk:OSPackages>
           <vadk:PackageGroup vadk:value="Minimal"/>
            <vadk:Package vadk:name="bind-utils"/>
            <vadk:Package vadk:name="libxml2-python"/>
            <vadk:Package vadk:name="python-xml"/>
            <vadk:Package vadk:name="wget"/>
            <vadk:Package vadk:name="libgmodule-2_0-0"/>
            <vadk:Package vadk:name="gettext-runtime"/>
        </vadk:OSPackages>

 

If I did this task manually thru the installer, I can remove it under the "Details" section to refine the list further.   Is there some way to exclude certain packages from that group?

Not that I know of (and not though the Studio build profile), but possibly in the autoyast file, since that governs the installation. You may end up with problems, though, as most distributions are rather lazy about the package dependencies, thinking that, of course, you want a Windows-like system that has everything in it, and you don't care about disk space. You can also remove the packages you don't want later, as well.

gxc422 wrote:

If each product build profile varies, I assume I can simply use the xsl:for-each to populate the remove-packages?

I think so.