Dan Horák wrote:
seth vidal píše v Po 05. 01. 2009 v 14:40 -0500:
> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:37 -0500, David Huff wrote:
>
>>> Server services
>>> - bring more server packages into Fedora
>>> - encourage creation of EPEL branches for existing packages
>>>
>>> Kernel
>>> - everything about the kernel side of servers
>> We have not done anything here, however we have discussed pulling out
>> some kernel modules that are not needed for virtual appliances. There
>> is not an easy way of doing this without "breaking" rpm, current
>> thinking is to use white/black listing of actual files.
>
> Do not work outside of rpm for these things. Work within the system you
> have available and/or modify it upstream. Working outside of it means
> that all the tools we already have to work on things w/i the rpm
> framework have to be modified to work nicely with what you're trying to
> do.
Is this about the size of the kernel rpm package or the size of running
kernel and ramdisk?
We were more thinking of rpm package size, and the "foot-print" of a
virtual server appliance. Not all of the kernel modules are needed to
run in a VC.
As I said we haven't don much here, it was just something that had come
up in some discussions.
-D