Eliminating Scriptlets for Fun and Profit
summary
Claim: removing RPM scriptlets yields huge speed and safety wins. A prototype image builder assembles payloads without running scriptlets and reduces a 15‑minute install to 6 seconds. Analysis covers hundreds of packages to catalog the roughly six common scriptlet tasks. Concrete replacements: file triggers for caches/catalogs, systemd presets and helper units for service setup, tempfiles.d and new OSBuild macros for users/groups. Fedora already removes some scriptlets (ldconfig) and the prototype approach works; migration is gradual but practical.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 1:07WHAT ARE SCRIPTLETS?
- 1:41WHAT ARE THEY FOR?
- 1:58WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?
- 11:34DO WE NEED THEM?
- 11:56SCRIPTLET REFORM
- 25:34QUESTIONS?
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