OLPC & package dependency growth
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Wed Jul 9 16:45:39 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 16:10 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> We could sure use some scripts to anaylse RPM deps on a nightly basis
> and produces reports on interesting stats. eg disk footprint of the
> chain starting from package 'X', or list of dependancies from package
> 'X', or perhaps something that given a kickstart file can report
> the total size of the package set listed in the kickstart without
> actually going through the full livecd (or equiv) build process. We
> are fighting a similar battle to OLPC with the oVirt project which
> has a live CD we're trying to keep under 64 MB in size.
I basically do this with some scripts against the live cds which I build
(nearly) daily. I could work on actually getting that information into
a more consumable form rather than just doing it on an "I saw the livecd
grew, what happened this time" basis
Jeremy
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