On Thu, 05 May 2011 21:38:14 -0300 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 09:25 PM, Allan McRae wrote: > > On 06/05/11 01:50, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > >> the size of core-dual iso has been over 700MB for a while. > >> the last one is 738MB. > >> See http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2011.04.30/ > >> > >> what would be the best way to fix this? different archiso2dual > >> parameters? different compression somewhere? revised packagelist? > >> moving some packages out of core? [is anyone aware of noticeable > >> size increases of the core repo or core packages?] > >> > > > > You can get rid of gcc-{fortran,objc,ada,go} which are only in > > [core] due to limitations of our repo scripts. > > > > Allan > > > $ pacman -Si gcc-ada gcc-fortran gcc-go gcc-objc | awk > '/^Do/{p=p+$4}; END{print p,p*2}' > 27745.7 55491.4 > > We can skip these packages in download-repo.sh. > I agree we shouldn't restrict ourselves any longer to cd-r size limitations, OTOH if we can keep our images <700MB with relative ease and that way support cd-r's, then i prefer that. also: optimizing size is always useful. (less storage/bandwith intensive) adding exceptions in download-repo.sh to work around limitations in our repo scripts is not the way to go imho. let's get those packages out of core the proper way, and let's see if/how we can cut another 10MB. Dieter
