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Minimize Ubuntu vagrant box size for packaging
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cleanup.sh
#!/bin/bash
##
# Run as sudo, then exit and package immediately
##
# Remove unnecessary packages
aptitude purge ri
aptitude purge installation-report landscape-common wireless-tools wpasupplicant ubuntu-serverguide
aptitude purge python-dbus libnl1 python-smartpm linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic python-twisted-core libiw30
aptitude purge python-twisted-bin libdbus-glib-1-2 python-pexpect python-pycurl python-serial python-gobject python-pam python-openssl libffi5
# Cleanup any other packages
aptitude clean
# Zero free space to aid VM compression
dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M
rm -f /EMPTY
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