[olpc-software] Clarification please

[Glen Gray]

Hey Darryl,

Darryl Palmer wrote:
> It appears to be a discontinued product, see 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/edk/
Yes, it has been discontinued. RedHat seemed to stop going after the 
embedded space when RH8 came along. That URL may not even be the product 
I was referring to though, as the docs didn't seem to mention any of the 
rpm building stuff I remember from the presentation RedHat gave us. We 
didn't use it simply because at that stage, I'd already done something 
similar myself (though manually, not via a fancy tool).

Either way, RedHat would still have the code. My guess is that the tools 
have just completely been forgotten about and no body knew 
about/thoughtof using it. The source code was available to those who 
purchased the product IIRC.

>  I too questioned why it was chosen to use a normal Fedora distro and 
> try to blacklist all the files to be deleted, but now the tools to 
> build it along with the size of the image are just about on track.
Yeah, but at quite a cost. We've lost RPM as a result of this approach, 
plus it's never going to be as fine grained as a bottom up approach. And 
it's still taking up 280Mb of disk space, which is greatly reduced, but 
still seems like quite a lot for such a minimal product.

It may be that we'll only ever get a few meg off here and there, and 
it's done now. I was just curious as to how this approach was agreed upon.

Kind regards,

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