On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 07:21 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:15:42AM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> I am curious if anyone thought about starting some sort of "Small Server"
> fork of Fedora. I figure it's not something that is a pure fantasy,
> considering that Spot manages Aurora all by himself. Come to think of it,
> what forks and derivatives of Fedora do we know?
There have been tools like miniconda. I've been down this path a bit and you
hit a single fundamental near-insoluble problem - up2date/yum/rpm. They burn
resources and need some major rework at the rpm level - work that nobody
afaik is assigned to do (I suspect we are talking full time engineer on
such work).
apt + dpkg on the other hand sucks in lots of other ways but works.
the memory footprint in yum in rawhide has come way down for
non-transaction things, but you'd still need to break up the transaction
into chunks to keep the rpm ts from being to big for a global update,
for example. It's not impossible, actually, it would just take some
restructuring. The only question is - how little ram are we talking
about now?
-sv