[OM Cooker] Slimming down our repo.... Howto...

Matthew Dawkins mattydaw at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 15:34:43 EST 2016


So if we wanna make life easier on ourselves we should first thing after
the "#3" Release purge obsolete SRPMs from our repo.

This is gonna take a few steps but first we need to know what packages
l'users are actually installing. So, we ask people to take a new install
and plump_it_up. Install all their favorite applications for a normal
install.

Then, we ask them to send us their install list.... Easy to do.
rpm -qa --qf "%{sourcerpm}\n" | sort -u > send_to_us.list

We over several months compile a complete list of all our l'user base and
begin a mass build of only the packages in that list. We also scour the
BuildRequires pulled in for the build of each package and so on and so
forth.

After a few iterations we should have a very comprehensive and complete
list of the Required SRPMs for main repo. The rest literally should be
moved to Contribs or plainly retired.

I'd guess we'll end up with around 5k SRPMs when this is said and done and
that would be a lot nicer to manage than whatever we have now.

Regards,
Matt
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