[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH]: Shrink the managed node image to under 64MB

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:26:51AM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> All,
>      Attached is a patch that cleans up the managed node image some more, so
> that the ISO size is 57MB, the overall /tftpboot directory (for PXE) is 62MB,
> and the runtime image (right after boot) is ~152MB.
>      It's a larger patch than it looks, mostly because I re-organized the way we
> were getting rid of stray kernel modules.
>      Note that keeping the image this small depends on 3 things:
> 
> a)  Re-writing the /sbin/ovirt-identify-node script in bash or C, which I
> believe Darryl has already started on.  This is because I explicitly remove python.
> 
> b)  Having a libvirt version that *doesn't* require python.  This is a little
> tricky; the version of libvirt currently in updates (0.4.2-3) does require
> python since it requires lokkit.  However, the version in updates-testing
> (0.4.2-4) doesn't require python, since lokkit was dropped.  That being said, I
> believe the plan is for libvirt to re-enable lokkit in the future, so we will
> have to watch out for that.

Ok, this pain with lokkit has gone too far. It must die a horrible and
flaming death. All we're using it for is to persist the iptables config
we need, which basically comes down to writing a simple text file. We
really don't need python todo that.

Dan.
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