On 25 May 2011 08:50, Yioryos Asprobounitis <[email protected]> wrote: > There is some discussion about the usability of F14 builds in relation to > their size [1] > F14 builds are _really big_ for the 1GB XO-1 NAND leaving very little space > for the user. If a few videos or wiki is installed or even try olpc-update > you may run out of space.
I filed http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10911 so that we investigate the size growth. Also CCing Yader who expressed some interest in helping us figure this out. I personally feel that having GNOME (even in 10.1) on XO-1 is too heavy size-wise for the laptops, and I know of various deployments that don't ship it for reasons like these. So, while serious, these issues won't affect the whole user base at this level. > I was wondering if unused locales could be removed (a la localepurge) at > first boot or after language selection, modifying also accordingly > `%_install_langs'. > This should save considerable space and make F14 builds more usable for the 1 > million XO-1s out there. > Of course deployments could make heir own builds and modify them accordingly, > but I'm sure that many places may not have this luxury. We already ship a fixed set of locales, as specified by the build config, with all others removed. These are en_US,en_AU,es,ar,pt,pt_BR,fr,ht,mn,mr_IN,am_ET,km_KH,ne_NP,ur_PK,rw,ps,fa_AF,si,zh_CN,de Also, again note that deployments can (and do) strip this down for their own builds. As for olpc-update issues, I suspect that updating from old major releases to 11.2.0 will be difficult (for disk space reasons) just as it was for 10.1. I think we just have to live with this (its the expense of shipping such a large software base on a small disk). But perhaps you were referring to the inability to olpc-update between individual 11.2.0 builds; that is now fixed, starting from build 20. (so the build 20-to-21 update should work fine) You say that stripping firmware, dri and locale saves 50% of the disk space. Have you measured this or is this guesswork? It seems unlikely to me that these items would constitute ~350mb of compressed space, but I won't argue against real numbers ;) Daniel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
