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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).
Busybox has a really really minimal core re-implementation of rpm/cpio. ~ It's too minimal for real use, in fact, but it does work. A few months ago I did some work on it adding a "database" maintained in /var/lib/rpm consisting of just the header part of all installed packages. It has a trawl through them to determine package requires and suchlike on -i -u or -e. The benefit is mainly thanks to the original implementation I added to, the thing is incredibly lean in terms of memory use and footprint, although since it was designed for an embedded RPM-based distro scalability is a bit poor since there is no database but a bunch of files to wander through and 'bunch' could be expected to be less than 20 for the use it was written for.
It's a http://warmcat.com/rpm.c if anyone is interested; needs to go in ./archival in the Busybox tree replacing the one that's there.
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