[indiana-discuss] scope (was Re: ZFS to the max)

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Again, I've been dabbling in what we currently have. As a first step, I've just
generated a whole bunch of package lists, with compressed sizes for Solaris
Express build 66.

I did this by basically going into each SUNW* directory under
Solaris_11/Product, and generating a size vs package name vs package description
triplet.

http://www.gnome.org/~gman/solaris-66-cd-1-contents.txt
http://www.gnome.org/~gman/solaris-66-cd-2-contents.txt
http://www.gnome.org/~gman/solaris-66-cd-3-contents.txt
http://www.gnome.org/~gman/solaris-66-cd-4-contents.txt
http://www.gnome.org/~gman/solaris-66-cd-5-contents.txt
http://www.gnome.org/~gman/solaris-66-cd-6-contents.txt

and summarizing across the entire set -

http://www.gnome.org/~gman/solaris-66-cd-total-contents.txt

Here's the non-SUNW packages -

http://www.gnome.org/~gman/solaris-66-cd-non-sun-contents.txt

There's a whole heap of analysis that can be done on this -

 o Removing the non-distributable packages
 o Removing the localization packages
 o Removing the developer packages
 o Removing the potentially redundant multiple version packages
 o Removing the stuff we actually don't care about
 o Estimating the packages that would be useful for a single
   CD

I plan to start looking at answering a few of these questions. If anyone else is
keen, please feel free to investigate and do some write-ups. At the very least,
there's *definitely* some low hanging fruit for Solaris Express alone.


Glynn