On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 10:09 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 17:56 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote: > > I'm less concerned about x86_64 for Beta, but i686 not fitting on a CD > > is a stop ship. We're 43~megs over size. That's not a small amount. > > This may have been brought up before, but I don't see archives of it so > > it may have been IRC only. > > > > http://jkeating.fedorapeople.org/alpha2beta-live-diff has a listing of > > the package differences between Alpha and Beta. I would really > > appreciate some help looking for something to cut for size, since you > > guys are supposed to own this config now. > > > > http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob;f=fedora-live-base.ks;h=55f57cf0a7ebf60326c5eabf968b0d4b2dfd4975;hb=refs/heads/F-10-Beta > > > > http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob;f=fedora-livecd-desktop.ks;h=371ad17a34667b60fe0fab63a3e9876245c7da9e;hb=refs/heads/F-10-Beta > > > > and > > > > http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=blob;f=fedora-livecd-desktop-default.ks;h=e7a91937f1eb87df3d5197f6ea6cf2918ca986fb;hb=refs/heads/F-10-Beta > > > > are the configs used. > > Not that it's much by way of disk size, but it looks like a lot of the X > libs got measurably bigger for no particularly good reason. libXrandr, > for example, got almost 40% bigger purely because the ChangeLog in > %doc got three times bigger. > > Do we care that much about including these? I can't see that they're > worth much even on a real system. > > In related news, the rpm changelog for initscripts is over 100k and goes > back to 1997, which does affect disk size since the live image includes > a real rpmdb. glibc is even worse at about 120k, though it only goes > back to 2000. > I believe new versions of rpm will allow us to drop out all but the latest N changelogs. I know that the changelog metadata that createrepo produces now allows us to limit the changelogs we pass along in the xml metadata to the latest N, as well. I think we should keep the changelogs around in the spec files but not pass around any but say the last 10 inside the actual rpm. -sv -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
