Server SIG - work areas

[Dan Horák]

seth vidal píše v Út 06. 01. 2009 v 10:56 -0500:
> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 10:32 -0500, David Huff wrote:
> > Dan Horák wrote:
> > > seth vidal píše v Po 05. 01. 2009 v 14:40 -0500:
> > >> On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 14:37 -0500, David Huff wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>> Server services
> > >>>>  - bring more server packages into Fedora
> > >>>>  - encourage creation of EPEL branches for existing packages
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Kernel
> > >>>>  - everything about the kernel side of servers
> > >>> We have not done anything here, however we have discussed pulling out 
> > >>> some kernel modules that are not needed for virtual appliances.  There 
> > >>> is not an easy way of doing this without "breaking" rpm, current 
> > >>> thinking is to use white/black listing of actual files.
> > >>
> > >> Do not work outside of rpm for these things. Work within the system you
> > >> have available and/or modify it upstream. Working outside of it means
> > >> that all the tools we already have to work on things w/i the rpm
> > >> framework have to be modified to work nicely with what you're trying to
> > >> do.
> > > 
> > > Is this about the size of the kernel rpm package or the size of running
> > > kernel and ramdisk?
> > > 
> > 
> > We were more thinking of rpm package size, and the "foot-print" of a 
> > virtual server appliance.  Not all of the kernel modules are needed to 
> > run in a VC.
> 
> What kind of footprint are you looking for? Pulling out kernel modules
> are 1. not going to save you that much space and

IMHO it can

>  2. limiting the hw you
> can run on.

the set of virtual hardware is very limited


		Dan