Re: [OSR-devel] mkinitrd RPM dependencies

[Marc G. <gr...@at...>]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 09:21:32 Gordan Bobic wrote:
> 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...
We didn't include and think about deps because of this and many other reasons.
>
> >> 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... :-/
There is no option, if you build a sharedroot cluster you need a bigger initrd 
(gzip ~ 50MB is still acceptable). Cause all clusterservices that influence 
cluster recovery need to run outside the rootfs.

Regards Marc.
>
> Gordan
>
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