On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:35:30PM +0200, Maarten ter Huurne wrote: > Attached is a proposed patch for an option to exclude files or > directories from the squashfs root filesystem. The motivation for > this feature is to be able to create smaller ISO images. For > example, the following list of excludes makes the ISO about 7MB > smaller: var/cache/apt var/lib/apt var/lib/dpkg > > Removing these directories from the chroot does not work, since the > chroot is also used for installing tools and removing the > administrative directories of apt and dpkg breaks those > installations. Excluding them when running mksquashfs does not have > that problem.
...unless you want to apt-get install something while the system is running. I call "apt-get clean" instead, which at least gets rid of the .debs.
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