[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node-image] Fix RPMs to be forcefully removed individually instead of in blocks

Perry Myers pmyers at redhat.com
Thu Nov 20 21:48:39 UTC 2008


Jim Meyering wrote:
> Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Some dependencies changed in F10 so some of the $RPM blocks in the
>> blacklist were failing.  To ensure that a missing RPM doesn't stop
>> the uninstalling of other RPMs we remove each RPM individually.
>>
>> In addition, cronie now brings in exim so remove that forcefully
>>
>> On F10-x86_64 node-image RPM size is at 50MB with this patch.
>>
>> NOTE: I've tested building this as an F10 Node, someone should try an F9 Node.  My smoketest
>> consisted of booting a physical node using this image via PXE.  It came up, contacted the
>> server and showed up as available in the UI.  Further testing should probably be done before
>> committing, but I figured I would get the patch out for people to evaluate.
> 
> ACK.
> Worked for me on F10.
> I confirmed that appliance and node3 started and poked around on both.

Great :)  This was pushed minus the line that removes the .pp files in 
/etc/selinux

> If nothing requires gpg on the node, we can save 1.4MB by
> removing the /usr/bin/{gpg2,gpgv2,gpg-agent} binaries alone.
> There might be a few associated libraries, too...

I don't think gpg is used at all probably ok to remove

Perry

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