OLPC & package dependency growth - RFE!
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Thu Jul 10 23:37:45 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:30 +1000, David Timms wrote:
> 2. candidate for split:
> 16026876 fedora-release-notes.noarch
> perhaps into raw html, and css/images ?
What actually gets gained by splitting it? The majority of the size is
actually the various forms of the release notes + translations
> 3. I mentioned to some list a while ago that Fedora install for default
> / minimal F9 got to about 650 out 950 packages before it actually
> installed the kernel. It was suggested that this could be due to needing
> to get tools to build initrd to be present before the kernel install
> could occur. The output of this tool with kernel as argument suggests
> only about 80 packages are needed to solve deps. Is this realistic ?
That sounds plausible for just the kernel, but the ordering algorithm
used is a bit more complex. See rpm/lib/depends.c:rpmtsOrder() if you
want all of the grotty details. We don't do transaction splitting and
if we're to do it, it needs to be done in a more general fashion rather
than special-casing the kernel.
Jeremy
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