Hey Darryl,
Darryl Palmer wrote:
It appears to be a discontinued product, see
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/edk/
Yes, it has been discontinued. RedHat seemed to stop going after the
embedded space when RH8 came along. That URL may not even be the product
I was referring to though, as the docs didn't seem to mention any of the
rpm building stuff I remember from the presentation RedHat gave us. We
didn't use it simply because at that stage, I'd already done something
similar myself (though manually, not via a fancy tool).
Either way, RedHat would still have the code. My guess is that the tools
have just completely been forgotten about and no body knew
about/thoughtof using it. The source code was available to those who
purchased the product IIRC.
I too questioned why it was chosen to use a normal Fedora distro and
try to blacklist all the files to be deleted, but now the tools to
build it along with the size of the image are just about on track.
Yeah, but at quite a cost. We've lost RPM as a result of this approach,
plus it's never going to be as fine grained as a bottom up approach. And
it's still taking up 280Mb of disk space, which is greatly reduced, but
still seems like quite a lot for such a minimal product.
It may be that we'll only ever get a few meg off here and there, and
it's done now. I was just curious as to how this approach was agreed upon.
Kind regards,
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