OLPC & package dependency growth
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 9 20:34:17 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:35 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 15:18 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 11:44 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > Taking a list of pkgs, resolving out all of their deps then calculating
> > > installed size (not calculating vs an existing install, but raw
> > > installed size) shouldn't take too much code at all. I'll see what I can
> > > hack up today.
> > >
> > > It won't take into account overlaid files (like docs and manpages, nor
> > > multilib binaries) but it should give you a pretty good upper range
> > > (sort of).
> >
> > A start of what it should do. I'll fix up the kickstart parsing, among
> > other things, later - once I get some confirmation is even remotely in
> > the ballpark.
> >
> > http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/installed-size.py
>
> The thing which becomes important to see is growth (or shrinkage) in
> packages as well as what new packages/removed packages there are. Which
> involves fiddly questions of growth thresholds and human analysis of the
> output
I can output a csv of the pkgs that would be installed.
-sv
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