On 06/05/11 17:31, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
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.
That limitation in the devtools/db-scripts has been around ever since
split packages became available in pacman/makepkg. I would not bank on
it getting fixed in the short term (or even in the long term...)
Allan
