[Fedora-livecd-list] Big size difference in i686 and x86_64 versions of KDE live images
Hi,
my KDE live images are showing a big size difference between the i686 and the
x86_64 images (around 40 megs). The slighlty different package list couldn't
explain this (i.e. atlas-sse (i686) vs. atlas (x86_64) is the only important
difference).
So I've compared the sizes of the installed packages (rpm -qa --qf %{name}
{size}\n | sort -nr). Many packages are different in size but the kernel does
have the biggest difference:
i686: 78453688
x86_64: 103736431
A test spin of the GNOME images doesn't show this difference (only 2 megs).
Does anybody has an explanation for this?
Or can somebody try to create a x86_64 version for comparison (with livecd-
creator and spins-kickstarts from git)?
Sebastian
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Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Big size difference in i686 and x86_64 versions of KDE live images
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 14:37:00 +0200, Sebastian Vahl deadbaby...@googlemail.com wrote: Does anybody has an explanation for this? Or can somebody try to create a x86_64 version for comparison (with livecd- creator and spins-kickstarts from git)? It might be multilib related. For example if you pull in wine you will pull in i686 libraries that (sort of) duplicate libraries already pulled in for x86_64. For the games spin, I dropped wine for this reason as it put the x86_64 version of the spin over size. -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list Fedora-livecd-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Big size difference in i686 and x86_64 versions of KDE live images
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Sebastian
Vahldeadbaby...@googlemail.com wrote:
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x86_64 images (around 40 megs). The slighlty different package list couldn't
explain this (i.e. atlas-sse (i686) vs. atlas (x86_64) is the only important
difference).
So I've compared the sizes of the installed packages (rpm -qa --qf %{name}
{size}\n | sort -nr). Many packages are different in size but the kernel does
have the biggest difference:
i686: 78453688
x86_64: 103736431
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I haven't tested extensively just yet, but in a conversation with
Kevin Fenzi the other day he noted that the 64-bit version of the Xfce
spin was inflated by ~35MB or so because of dracut which is something
we might need to adress with the dracut guys/gals/team/whatever. I
don't know if the 32-bit version of the Xfce spin is also effected or
not just yet, the compose I did on Monday I don't believe included
dracut so I can't really say this is it for sure ... just something I
thought I'd mention.
-Adam
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