Am 15.10.2012 21:34, schrieb Kevin Fenzi: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:24:09 -0400 > Bill Nottingham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Matthew Miller ([email protected]) said: >>> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:19:03PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: >>>> But hey, I don't need to install packages or want python! >>>> systemd+ util-linux + bash + initscripts + passwd: >>>> Install 6 Packages (+108 Dependent packages) >>>> Total download size: 94 M >>>> Installed size: 401 M >>> >>> Of which one quarter is the kernel and the other quarter is glibc >>> locale support, right? >> >> Or more: >> >> 122659574 kernel >> 117821428 glibc-common >> 35623360 linux-firmware >> 14233540 coreutils >> 13845828 glibc > > I wonder... could we make linux-firmware optional? > > I would expect many virt env's don't need any firmware to work... > (but of course I could be wrong)
you are right
the dependency was introduced not so long ago
a bugreport was closed with "WONT FIX"
i went the road below
[root@buildserver:~]$ cat /rpmbuild/SPECS/linux-firmware-dummy.spec
%global checkout 06c8f81
Summary: metapackage to satisfy kernel-dependencies on vmware-servers
Name: linux-firmware-dummy
Version: 20120206
Release: 0.1.git%{checkout}%{?dist}
BuildArch: noarch
Group: System Environment/Libraries
URL: http://www.thelounge.net/
License: GPL
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
Provides: linux-firmware = %{version}
Provides: kernel-firmware = %{version}
%description
metapackage to satisfy kernel-dependencies on vmware-servers
%install
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
%files
%clean
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
%changelog
* Wed Apr 11 2012 Reindl Harald <[email protected]>
- initial build
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