{"id":238,"date":"2009-09-10T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outflux.net\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2009-09-10T18:58:50","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T02:58:50","slug":"vrms-meme-152","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/10\/vrms-meme-152\/","title":{"rendered":"vrms meme: 15.2%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/identi.ca\/notice\/9803393\">Jorge<\/a>, I decided to see how high a <code>vrms<\/code> score I could manage.  I started with a minimal chroot (via <a href=\"https:\/\/help.ubuntu.com\/community\/SbuildLVMHowto\">mk-sbuild-lv<\/a>), and did:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code>$ sudo -s<br \/>\n# echo \"deb http:\/\/archive.canonical.com\/ jaunty partner\" &gt;&gt; \/etc\/apt\/sources.list<br \/>\n# sudo apt-get update<br \/>\n# apt-get --no-install-recommends install $(grep ^Package \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/*{multiverse,partner}*Packages | awk '{print $NF}' | sort -u | egrep -v '^(ttf-lucida|crafty-books-medium|crafty-books-small|festvox-rablpc8k|kxmame|funguloids|ltsp-controlaula|mplayer-nogui|ora2pg|python-pygpu|sdlmame|sdlmame-tools|linux-rt|e-uae|e-uae-dbg|sun-java5-fonts|sun-java6-fonts)$')<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since we want to minimize free packages, I added <code>--no-install-recommends<\/code> since it would only pull in free stuff (since I was already installing all of multiverse and partner directly).  I tried to solve conflicts by making choices that would install the maximum number of packages. After installing 10G worth of packages, I had my results:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><code># vrms | grep ^[a-z0-9] | wc -l<br \/>\n514<br \/>\n# vrms | tail -n2<br \/>\n  342 non-free packages, 15.2% of 2252 installed packages.<br \/>\n  172 contrib packages, 7.6% of 2252 installed packages.<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='text-align:left'>&copy; 2009, <a href=\"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/\">Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>.<br \/><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"CC BY-SA 4.0\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Jorge, I decided to see how high a vrms score I could manage. I started with a minimal chroot (via mk-sbuild-lv), and did: $ sudo -s # echo &#8220;deb http:\/\/archive.canonical.com\/ jaunty partner&#8221; &gt;&gt; \/etc\/apt\/sources.list # sudo apt-get update # apt-get &#8211;no-install-recommends install $(grep ^Package \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/*{multiverse,partner}*Packages | awk &#8216;{print $NF}&#8217; | sort -u | [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}