Eliminating Scriptlets for Fun and Profit
Channel: DevConf
Date: 29/03/2019

Presentation name: Eliminating Scriptlets for Fun and Profit
Speakers: Stephen Gallagher • Will Woods
Description:  Does your installation, image generation or CI setup take *far too
long*? In this talk, we'll discuss how we analyzed hundreds of
packages in Fedora to identify their use of RPM scriptlets as an
enormous contributing factor to slow installations and complications
around generating stable container and ostree images.

We will discuss the various strategies that we have today to eliminate
many of these scriptlets as well as our plans for eventually removing
most or all of them from Fedora.

This talk is intended for those who are working in packaging or
image-generation on RPM-based systems and have at least a basic
familiarity with rpmbuild and RPM spec file syntax.
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