On 07/24/2012 07:20 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> even though we don't auto enable any services on install,
> splitting out some sub packages would reduce dependencies
> on particular packages, saving disk space and identifying
> and distributing dependencies going forward.
> The current plan is to split into the following 10 subpackages:
> 
> openstack-nova (a new meta package for compat with old scripts)
>   openstack-nova-compute
>   openstack-nova-cert
>   openstack-nova-scheduler
>   openstack-nova-volume
>   openstack-nova-api
>   openstack-nova-network
>   openstack-nova-objectstore
>   openstack-nova-console

> I plan to implement this for the existing Essex packages
> in Fedora 17 and EPEL6 over the next while.
> 
> Note to get an idea of the distribution of the disk space at least
> I used `yum install --disablerepo=*updates pkg1 pkg2` in an F17 VM
> booted from a live iso. That gave an installed size of existing packages as:
> 
>   python-nova = 134M
>   openstack-nova = 117M
> 
> Splitting to 10 sub packages would give:
> 
>   python-nova = 56M
>   openstack-nova-compute = 166M
>   openstack-nova-volume = 38M
>   rest are minimal in size (but dep on python-nova)

This split is now pushed to Fedora 17 and EPEL 6 testing:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-nova-2012.1.1-11.el6
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-nova-2012.1.1-11.fc17

cheers,
Pádraig.
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