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From an image snapshot to one built from scratch
Our original image was a full filesystem image that got snapshotted in perforce (with a special file to store metadata).
We ended up with files that were not runtime created, and not part of any package either.
I ended up finding the expected leftover files (.rpmsave, old unused files), lockfiles and logfiles that shouldn't have been checked in, /etc/rcxx initscript symlinks.
Any actual program that wasn't part of a package, was identified and moved to a package.
This was the first step to having an image that could be rebuilt from scratch and replace the snapshotted image.