yeah. I know but I'm getting the chroot passwd stuff I install shadow. so something else must be including that package.

what am I missing?

Kowalczyk

I installed your list using installpkg --root /path/to/directory, then added an entry to an existing /boot/grub/menu.lst and rebooted. It failed, so I added an /etc/fstab and it worked (I guess fstab is created by the Slackware installer script). Anyway to cut a short list even shorter it will boot without pkgtools, dialog, sysklogd and logrotate. I haven't experimented further as you need pkgtools to remove the packages.

samac

P.S. no problems with the root password.

I will use the other small install that worked, as a guide. And install a new one cutting down packages as I go. to try to find out what package I need

I found the package I needed

glibc-solibs I needed to get /usr/bin/passwd

but when I look in source/a on the dvd that package isnt there.
So I wonder where it's read from?

glibc-solibs is built as part of the glibc build in /d. Several glibc packages are built from a single SlackBuild.

but I havent chosen D series. Only A. So why is it there? anyway I needed that or I got an error.
I will test on a real pc tomorrow, instead of vmware and check if I get the same error.


samac: isnt installpkg,removepkg,upgradepkg and so on a part of pkgtools? so I need that package, dont I?

Not to boot, but to add and remove packages.

You can also remove openssl-solibs. If you remove aaa-elflibs you require to add libtermcap, libcap, acl, attr (and ncurses if you absolutely want to be able to add packages).

samac

I know I dont need it to boot

I found the package that was missing so its ok. I installed all the aaa_ packages.
I think it's okay to have that so I can install packages.

You can also replace glibc-solibs with glibc, this will not be smaller but I feel it is nearer to a vanilla linux.

samac

ok. I can try that. and see if I get the same error.

Why would that be nearer vanilla?

Because these *-solibs are libraries that Patrick Volkerding has packaged up out of other packages, they are not stand alone libraries/programs. Therefore they are not found in all Linux distributions, they are part of Slackware Linux not all Linux distributions.

Incidently if you decide to do without the aaa_elflibs you can also remove aaa_terminfo as these files are provided by ncurses.

samac

so if I remove aaa_elflibs I can install libtermcap, libcap, acl, attr ? only those 4?
and if I remove terminfo I can install ncurses? what's positive with that?

Nothing.

However you will have learned, as I have just done, that init requires libtermcap, and ls requires libcap, acl and attr, dialog requires ncurses which also supplies your terminfo.

samac

No, no, the package named glibc includes everything installed by all the other glibc packages -the i18n, the development libs and headers, the locale stuff. glibc-solibs is not some pieced-together hack of a pack (while aaa_elflibs *is*).
glibc-solibs is a subset of the full glibc installation which includes just the runtime libraries. All the different parts of glibc are split into separate packages because the glibc package is *huge* and mayn users do not need or want all the different parts. If you list all the files included in all the glibc packages except the full glibc-x.x.x and run them through uniq, you'll find that the list matches the list of files in the full glibc-x.x.x package.

I stand corrected. It seems to be an odd way of doing it, having individual parts and a complete package, I would have thought it would have made more sense to have a glibc-base, glibc-headers, glibc-i18n etc.

Anyway I know now.

samac