I’m in the middle of trialing EC2, and I’m using the official Fedora 17 images kindly provided by the community.
They make a great starting point, because I can then install my needed software.
Some of which, though, I consider absolutely crucial. So far, I’ve need to install vim, less, rsync and screen. I can forgive rsync and screen, and to a certain extent less… but vim?
Especially when things like NetworkManager, ModemManager and mobile-broadband-provider-info are taking up space. Then there’s stuff like plymouth – we’re not seeing a graphical boot screen, so I should be able to erase this, right?
I hope that I don’t have to roll my own AMI image though. Just modify this one as needed, and create an AMI out of it.
And here’s the list of programs I find suspicious after removing a bunch of them:
NetworkManager-glib.x86_64 1:0.9.4.0-7.git20120403.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
avahi-autoipd.x86_64 0.6.30-7.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
cracklib.x86_64 2.8.18-3.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
cracklib-dicts.x86_64 2.8.18-3.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
fedora-logos.noarch 17.0.2-1.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
fontconfig.x86_64 2.8.0-6.fc17 @fedora
fontpackages-filesystem.noarch 1.44-4.fc17 @updates
freetype.x86_64 2.4.8-3.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
gamin.x86_64 0.1.10-12.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
hesiod.x86_64 3.1.0-21.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
hwdata.noarch 0.234-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
lcms-libs.x86_64 1.19-5.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
libX11.x86_64 1.4.99.901-2.fc17 @fedora
libX11-common.noarch 1.4.99.901-2.fc17 @fedora
libXau.x86_64 1.0.6-3.fc17 @fedora
libXft.x86_64 2.3.0-2.fc17 @fedora
libXrender.x86_64 0.9.7-1.fc17 @fedora
linux-atm-libs.x86_64 2.5.1-4.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
linux-firmware.noarch 20120206-0.3.git06c8f81.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
netxen-firmware.noarch 4.0.534-5.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
newt.x86_64 0.52.14-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
newt-python.x86_64 0.52.14-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
nspr.x86_64 4.9-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
nss.x86_64 3.13.4-3.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
nss-myhostname.x86_64 0.3-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
nss-softokn.x86_64 3.13.4-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
nss-softokn-freebl.x86_64 3.13.4-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
nss-sysinit.x86_64 3.13.4-3.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
nss-util.x86_64 3.13.4-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
pciutils.x86_64 3.1.9-1.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
pciutils-libs.x86_64 3.1.9-1.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
pinentry.x86_64 0.8.1-6.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
pkgconfig.x86_64 1:0.25-4.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
polkit.x86_64 0.104-6.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
popt.x86_64 1.13-10.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
ppp.x86_64 2.4.5-19.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
procmail.x86_64 3.22-29.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
procps.x86_64 3.2.8-26.20110302git.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
psmisc.x86_64 22.16-1.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
pth.x86_64 2.0.7-15.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
pygpgme.x86_64 0.2-2.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
pyserial.noarch 2.6-2.fc17 @fedora
setserial.x86_64 2.17-28.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
wpa_supplicant.x86_64 1:1.0-0.4.fc17 @koji-override-0/$releasever
#1 by goblidigoop on December 22, 2013 - 8:13 pm
Thank you, I also found all these packages highly suspicious, and I have weird problems with kojo-override-0
I blame the NSA
😛