Hi Martin, On 22 Oct 2011, at 06:31, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Gary Martin > <garycmar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Just to clarify, as yum install git is about the first thing I do (closely >> followed by yum install vim and pylint) on a fresh XO install I remembered >> to take a note of the install size – for the current olpc candidate 882 >> build, yum reports git install size as 11Mb (on XO-1.75) and 12Mb on an >> XO-1. It just pulls in 3 packages, git, perl-Error, and perl-Git. > > I think your numbers there understimate the situation. The Perl dep > chain is closer to what Peter reports. It's a rather late Friday night (well early Sat morning now I guess), so apologies if I'm missing something obvious... I just clean flashed os882 onto an XO-1 again. Running df -h reports /dev/root: 672Mb Used, 353Mb Avail, 66% Use. Then I yum install git, and df -h reports: 707Mb Used, 318Mb Avail, 69% Use. Then to clear the yum repo cache metadata, yum clean all: 677Mb Used, 348Mb Avail, 67% Use. So that seems to be only 5Mb of actual disk taken by installing git (I'm assuming disk compression has helped us out there from the otherwise yum reported 11Mb). I also tried a 'yum clean all' on a fresh os822, and df -h actually reported loosing 1Mb of free space (so just running 'yum clean all' must still be generating some metadata all of its own). I'll stop hand waving now. Regards, --Gary P.S. Not trying to lobby for or against git being added as a dependency to the sugar platform, that is outside my pay grade. Just seems an 80Mb dependency would be an obvious "no way" – but adding git from where we are right now seems more than magnitude less than that number. Perhaps this means there is unnecessary/unexpected package bloat in the current os822 build that is there by mistake? > I (obviously) love git, but the impact of shipping it is sizable. A > pre-requisite for would be to convince fedora git packager to whittle > git down to a "git-minimal" that doesn't include the Perl bits. > > (Alas, I checked and some of the core commands use perl -- I used to > think it was just email and importers.) > > > > m > -- > martin.langh...@gmail.com > mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC > - ask interesting questions > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
