On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 07:21 -0400, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 12:15:42AM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > I am curious if anyone thought about starting some sort of "Small Server" > > fork of Fedora. I figure it's not something that is a pure fantasy, > > considering that Spot manages Aurora all by himself. Come to think of it, > > what forks and derivatives of Fedora do we know? > > There have been tools like miniconda. I've been down this path a bit and you > hit a single fundamental near-insoluble problem - up2date/yum/rpm. They burn > resources and need some major rework at the rpm level - work that nobody > afaik is assigned to do (I suspect we are talking full time engineer on > such work). > > apt + dpkg on the other hand sucks in lots of other ways but works. the memory footprint in yum in rawhide has come way down for non-transaction things, but you'd still need to break up the transaction into chunks to keep the rpm ts from being to big for a global update, for example. It's not impossible, actually, it would just take some restructuring. The only question is - how little ram are we talking about now? -sv
