On Mon, 2011-08-01 at 15:22 -0700, John Reiser wrote: > >>> The "treebuilder" branch of lorax is a pretty big departure from current > >>> lorax master. > > >> Where is it? There is no such branch in git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/lorax.git. > > > clumens@exeter:~/src$ git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/git/lorax.git > > > clumens@exeter:~/src/lorax$ git branch -r > > [snip] > > origin/treebuilder > > So it's a _remote_ branch, not an ordinary branch. ...of course it's a remote branch. I can't very well push branches onto your local machine for you. Sorry? > [snip] > > It's a continuation of the work I did > > simplifying our installer environment, and it drastically reduces the > > memory requirements of installation. > > Can it install F-16 using only 512MB RAM? And 640MB with no swap partition? Yes. This work started before the F15 release, and I tested it then: https://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2011-March/msg00263.html I'll retest as soon as I rebuild anaconda with the RAM check lowered/removed. Furthermore, it's moving a lot of gnarly C code that we'd had to maintain ourselves for the past 5-10 years (?!) upstream, into dracut. For examples, see the following patches: - Handling updates: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.initramfs/1985 - Loading install.img (or any other live image) over http/ftp: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.initramfs/1988 Obviously these things will still want maintenance/improvements, but now they're part of an upstream project, so others can benefit and help with maintenance. > It's way too late: after feature submission deadline, after feature > freeze, > after alpha branch, after alpha change deadline, not ready for alpha > release. Yeah.. I posted this to anaconda-devel-list because I'm looking for technical advice/opinions from anaconda developers. If you have some of those, please share them; when it's time to talk to FESCo we'll talk to FESCo. -w _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
