smolt-firstboot dependencies
Yaakov Nemoy
loupgaroublond at gmail.com
Sun Sep 7 20:36:53 UTC 2008
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
>>>>>> "M" == Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> M> And all of that for just something you only see once.. Would be
> M> best if smolt-firstboot just didn't have any dependency's or only
> M> deps that are required by other must install (like python) apps as
> M> well
>
> Well, it has to do things like talk over the web, so it's going to
> need some RPC libraries of some type. I think it is, however, obvious
> that the current dependency chain is excessive.
>
> Checking the specfile, I see the python-turboflot dependency came in
> with a change which was not changelogged (and did not include a
> release bump), so there's no information about why that dep was
> added. The next package change was a license tag change, which
> included a release bump and a build. It is possible that something
> snuck out which was not intentended. I'm sure more will be known
> tomorrow when those involved are back from the weekend.
>
Turboflot should only be necessary for the webapp server end. It is
not necessary for the client or firstboot.
-Yaakov
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