From: Benoit des Ligneris; Friday, May 14, 2004 6:41 AM > > Hello, > > Most of the distribution have a minimal image or a minimal set of RPM > that are forced to install in order to avoid dependency problems. At the > lower level, most of the distribution RPM are not "correct" and does not > require all the necessary tools : a minimal number of tools has to be > accessible in order to use evoluate command (like rpm). The exact same > thing is recreated in SIS. > > So the option I recommend would be to use the minimal image created by > the creation of an "empty" SIS image (i.e. : without providing any RPM).
This is a possibility (in theory, don't know if SIS actually supports this), but there are other issues below. > The oscarsample/*.rpmlist should be completely discarded and > the rpmlist should be provided by the chrooted (in the minimal image) > update-rpm > should be used. > > It maybe interesting, then, to create a "virtual" RPM for OSCAR that > would simply contain PreReqs (for instance an X windowing system, etc.). > > This virtual RPM will be distro and version dependant but can be > automatically generated from the information contain in the config.xml > that is directly avalaible in ODA. We need to be careful here that we don't create a situation where "If you could actually boot this thing, there's enough for OSCAR to run", but we're missing various system administration packages that aren't "required" by OSCAR or any of its dependent packages. So, we may want/need to use the "minimal" package set for a distro -- to get us a functional base -- and then go from there based on OSCAR's direct and indirect needs. If this works, which it should, then we'd truly have very close to a minimal compute node. -- David N. Lombard My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel Corporation. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id%62&alloc_ida84&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
