On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, at 8:44 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
There's some discussion in the bug about what might be causing
this and
potential ways to resolve it, and please do dig into/contribute to that
if you can, but the other question here I guess is: how much do we care
about this? How bad is it that you can't reliably run dnf operations on
top of a minimal Fedora environment with 1G of RAM?
This obviously has some overlap with our stated hardware requirements,
so here they are for the record:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/release-notes/welcome/...
that specifies 2GB as the minimum memory for "the default
installation", by which I think it's referring to a default Workstation
install, though this should be clarified.
tl;dr - Not OK. We need to change the minimums or we need to make it work.
I consider desktop installations different from non-desktop. The 2G RAM minimum for
desktop makes sense. Meanwhile it makes sense it could and should be less for non-desktop
but I don't know how much less. I also don't know if the <= 1G RAM use case is
one we want to target, and include microdnf for it? But then I also don't know what
limitations come with microdnf and why wouldn't just use it for all non-desktop
images.
After some consideration I don't think it makes sense to take
this bug
as an F37 blocker, since it already affects F36, and that's what I'll
be suggesting at the next blocker review meeting. However, it does seem
a perfect candidate for prioritized bug status, and I've nominated it
for that.
I think we should block on this problem. The solution should be either change+clarify the
minimum requirements, or fix the problem (is it a bug in dnf proper, if not is microdnf a
solution, if not then we need to do a better job of publicizing the minimum and avoid the
use case in question.)
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Chris Murphy