Yeah, sorting by size is a good idea, here's the list sorted by size, biggest first http://mgracik.fedorapeople.org/install_image_diff_by_size.txt About the qt, you're right, yum installs a lot of dependency stuff, which is not needed, removing these dependencies can make the install tree smaller too. -- Martin Gracik ----- "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > It would help if you could make a list of files sorted > by size, as it makes sense to only remove the biggest files, > and let a few small ones be. > > Also why is qt getting included into the images, removing that > alone (the entire rpm) would be a big gain. > > As this is F-14 material we should not be afraid to submit spec > file patches to break out deps, so that we don't need to > remove files in the first place. > > Regards, > > Hans > > > On 05/21/2010 03:07 PM, Martin Gracik wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as some of you may know, the main goal of lorax was to get rid of > keepfiles. > > While in buildinstall we have a list of files we want to have in the > install.img, > > in lorax we would like to have a list of things to remove, from the > install tree, > > and put everything that is left to the install.img. > > > > There's one problem with this. The install image from lorax has more > than 400MB > > right now, the one from buildinstall has only 150MB. > > > > So I created a list of files that are in the lorax install.img, and > not in the > > buildinstall install image. There are 26000 files which we could > remove, > > but obviously I don't want to just use that diff in lorax and remove > everything, > > because that would be unmaintainable. > > > > You can download the list here > http://mgracik.fedorapeople.org/install_image_diff.txt > > > > So I would like to have a discussion with you guys, if we can come > up with some ideas, > > what can we get rid of from the list with some kind of algorithms, > globs etc. > > It would be nice if we could find some "relations" between some of > the files, and > > remove all of them at once, not one file at a time. > > > > I appreciate any kind of help. :) > > Thanks. > > > > -- > > > > Martin Gracik > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ > Anaconda-devel-list mailing list > Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
