[Planetlab-devel] myplc-devel

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006, Mark Huang wrote:

> Just got done with the first iteration of the myplc-devel package. It rebuilt 
> all of PlanetLab in about an hour and weighs in at 14 GB base, 20 GB after 
> building.

How much of that do you think could be separated out.  For example does 
that figure include the FC4 distribution?

> The bad news is that this is a lot larger than I expected. The good news is 
> that in the process of figuring out what all the dependencies actually were, 
> I made a few changes. The build environment now only requires packages from 
> Fedora Core 4 base and extras; no third party packages, tools, or 
> configuration are required anymore.
>
> At this point, I think it would be more sensible to simply provide you guys 
> with a kickstart script that installed the appropriate packages from a 
> vanilla FC4 DVD. Since by the time you finished downloading a prebuilt 
> chrooted build environment from Princeton, you probably could have rebuilt it 
> locally, as well as all of PlanetLab inside of it.

Please make the kickstart script flexible enough that it can grab the 
RPM's from an alternative location, such as via the web or somewhere on 
the filesystem.