On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 1:12 AM Matias Fonzo <s...@dragora.org> wrote:

> El 2022-05-06 03:58, DustDFG escribió:
> > Hello Matias!
> >
> > I am sorry for the delay
>
> No problem!
>
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 7:00 PM Matias Fonzo <s...@dragora.org> wrote:
> >
> > The size of the ISO matters, since we have to create the images for
> >> several CDs, in 700mb maximum. To achieve this you have to adjust or
> >> change the output of the packages for the files containing the build
> >> orders. For example, the packages generated from 00-core.order would
> >> be
> >> installed to /var/cache/qi/packages/cd1/ with the rest continuing to
> >> wrap their output for the next CD number. So from stage 2 you can
> >> create
> >> the images for the CDs. It also gives the possibility of doing what
> >> you
> >> suggested before, once the packages are generated, they will be
> >> available in the packages/ directory, when chrooting in, Qi can be
> >> used
> >> to install directly, for example. the core from
> >> var/cache/qi/packages/cd1.
> >>
> >
> > As I know, now qi has an `--outdir` command line option. It can't give
> > you
> > several cd's by stripping size but you can easily move all packages
> > from
> > the 00-core.order to folder  var/cache/qi/packages/cd1
> >
>
> Yes, and measure its size to see if it fits in 700 MB.  Other series can
> make up the "cd2" and so on...
>

It seems to me that qi mustn't do it. It seems to me that it must do
something wrapper....

>
> >> Apart from this, my proposal is to create a rootfs, which you unpack
> >> directly, which is more direct and faster than having to install
> >> packages one by one via Qi.
> >>
> >
> >  It is something like `darkcrusade` compiler collection. I also think
> > that
> > the rootfs can be a template for different image types (iso, qcow ...)
> > so I
> > thought that the rootfs and the core image is one entity.
> >
> > It seems to me that it will be good to have an xx-bootstrap.order that
> > contains minimal system that you can run...
>
> For a minimal system it is needed to identify, mark or sub-categorize
> the most essential packages required to run the system.
>

What do you propose?

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