2009-04-21 - Fedora Test Day - Minimal platform

Ondrej Hudlicky ohudlick at redhat.com
Tue Apr 21 21:35:07 UTC 2009


Peter Robinson wrote, On 04/21/2009 10:19 PM:
>>> Greetings testers,
>>>
>>> Calling all package gurus and dependency junkies!  The Fedora 11
>>> MinimalPlatform feature [1] aims to provide a tiny installation package
>>> set by identifying unwanted deps from @Core and related groups.  As
>>> described in the feature page, the benefits to Fedora include:
>>>
>>>      * Security - lower the attack surface by installing only necessary
>>>        packages
>>>      * Performance - faster installation and less running services
>>>      * Storage - installation is less than 500MB
>>>
>>> There will also be several new tools available to help navigate
>>> dependencies, including rpmreaper and rpm2comps.
>>> Come join #fedora-qa this Tuesday, April 21 2009 to help put an end to
>>> deps creep.  Test cases and a Fedora live image will be available to aid
>>> testing. Stay tuned for more details are available at
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-04-21_Minimal_Platform.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> James
>>>
>>> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/MinimalPlatform
>>
>> Join us today, we have lot of work to do :)
>>
>> Side goal of this event is also to open discussion and as an output improve
>> set of best practices how to handle with dependencies and subpackages. This
>> is partly defined in packaging guidelines, but just for -doc -static -devel.
>> I might be beneficial to implement wider and stricter rules.
>> Ideally if some rpmlint plugin can check whether the srpm is correctly
>> divided into subpackages.
> 
> This is great news. I started filing tickets to reduce/split out deps
> when I started looking at doing a "Fedora Mini" spin for netbooks and
> the like to be able to install a usable desktop env in 2Gb (the
> smallest size of the SSD on some netbooks) but have since got
> sidetracked helping out the OLPC project with similar sort of stuff.
> 
> Is there also a tracker bug to link reported bugs against?

Wasn't, but it is good idea! If you like, please link them in following 
tracker: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496977

Originally we used keyword in QE Whiteboard: MinimalPlatform.

--
Ondrej




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