more heat-cfntools dependency creep

Joe Brockmeier jzb at redhat.com
Thu Dec 18 17:54:36 UTC 2014


On 12/12/2014 10:52 AM, Ryan Brown wrote:
> The dep actually isn't new, it was added (according to my buddy `git
> blame`) 4 months ago in response to this[1] issue because users were
> expecting to be able to install gems with cfntools.
> 
> You're right that this should have been caught earlier, and a nightly
> check would certainly help. Sorry I missed the cutoff getting that build
> to stable.
> 
> [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1130964
> 
> On 12/12/2014 11:25 AM, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> heat-cfntools pulls ruby into the cloud image :(
>>
>> We're _really_ trying to get interpretted languages _out_ of there, and
>> of course we're trying to get the size down overall. 
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1173682
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure when this started -- I wish I'd caught it before the f21
>> release.
>>
>> We should have a nightly test check of some sort which alerts when
>> new packages are pulled in via dependency to the nightly image builds.

I'm puzzled because I dimly recall the conversation about wanting to add
this and we chose not to? Surprised to see it in after all.

Best,

jzb


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