[Nepomuk] Packaging Virtuoso: some hints on how to reduce the size

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Tuesday 20 October 2009 13:01:36 Dario Freddi wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I'm messing up with the new Virtuoso stuff, and I have to say it's really
> nice. I'll try making it work with 4.3 soon, but as far as I can tell with
>  my 4.4 account things vastly improved.
> 
> The only small issue that remains is how to package virtuoso. At the moment
>  my configure line looks like:
> 
> ./configure --disable-xmltest --disable-tutorial-vad
>  --disable-sparqldemo-vad --disable-demo-vad
> 
> I stripped out just the obvious. However, I see a lot of things (Java
>  stuff, sesame stuff, something about mediawiki???) which I suppose it's
>  not really needed for Soprano to work. So I was wondering if you have a
>  minimal configure command that would install _only_ what is needed for
>  soprano to work.

I doubt there is such a command. But --disable-all-vads is a good candidate.

> Even better, a list of the files needed. I would really like to have a
> virtuoso package, which would contain the strict necessary for Soprano to
> work, and a virtuoso-extra package, containing the admin interface and all
>  the rest.

Soprano only needs two things:

1. the "virtuoso-t" binary.
2. The ODBC driver "virtodbc_r"

nothing else.

> And yes, such a thing should be put on Techbase (hope it's not already
>  there, sorry if this is the case) and passed to packagers

Where is the appropriate place for it exactly?
I heard we had a requirements page which packagers look at.

Cheers,
Sebastian