[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH] Add additional blacklisting and rpm removal to managed node

[Ian Main]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:16:23 +0200
Chris Lalancette <clalance at redhat.com> wrote:

> Perry Myers wrote:
> > A few important notes:
> > 1. /lib/modules was scoured for things that didn't seem necessary, however
> >    my notion of not necessary may not be correct.  Please review the list
> >    of modules that I'm removing and if you see one that we need to add back
> >    in, comment.
> > 2. /boot is removed as we don't need an initrd and kernel image inside of
> >    the livecd initrd.
> 
> Ah yes, good to remove this, since it is superflous.
> 
> > 3. The blacklisting method is a hack.  What we need is an appliance creator
> >    that has black/whitelisting capabilities...  (hint, hint to our AOS
> >    friends out there)
> > 
> > The ISO image RPM is down to 45MB
> > PXE image RPM is at 52MB
> > Running filesystem is 130MB
> 
> My question is: so?  I don't really see how it's much of an improvement over
> what we already have.  Or rather, it's an improvement, but in my opinion the
> cost (breaking RPM, breaking RPM dependencies, etc) is too high.

[snip]
 
> Overall, seems to be breaking a lot of debug and reproducibility functionality
> for very little gain.

I think we should bring back the idea of having a debug image and a production
image. Have your cake and eat it too.. might be a bit more to maintain though..
have to think about that.

    Ian