Re: [OSR-devel] mkinitrd RPM dependencies

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Marc Grimme wrote:

> On Wednesday 10 October 2007 19:57:50 Gordan Bobic wrote:
>> Does mkinitrd resolve RPM dependencies? Or does it only extract the RPMS
>> listed (and then only the subsets specified)?
>
> It does not resolve it only extracts. That would have been too hard and then
> we'll end up with a whole distro in initrd.

Well, rpm -q --requires gives you a dependency chain to follow, so it's 
not particularly hard to resolve the dependencies. But when a bare minimum 
of a distribution still requires 180MB of the glibc in the default 
installation, one starts to wonder if maybe it's all gone horribly 
wrong...

>> I'm trying to put together a list of what is required to fire up the iscsi
>> subsystem, and I'm starting to get a feeling that it won't be long before
>> I might as well put the whole distro into the initrd. :-(
>
> No you don't need gnome and X11. ;-)

You know, that's a little too close to the truth to be funny... :-/

Gordan