On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Michael Tautschnig < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Michael Tautschnig wrote: > >>> Andreas Sindermann wrote: > >>> > >>> [snip...] > >>> > >>>> Perhaps in your package_config files you install with 'aptitude -r' > >>>> instead of simple aptitude? > >>> I only use 'install'. > >> > >> Which distro are you using? Is it lenny or etch? > > > > lenny > > Could you try hacking the fai-mirror script, at the point where the > aptoptions > variables is set: Add -o Apt::Install-Recommends=false, just like the > other > options. Does this help? > It does help but there are still things I don't understand. The size of our ISO built with this hack has dropped from about 560MB to about 495MB. There is still variations building from a full debian mirror I get an 508MB ISO . Building from a partial mirror the ISO drops to 497MB. This partial mirror is a proper subset of the full-mirror containing every package pulled from the full mirror during an ISO build and nothing else. I find this behavior puzzling. It seems to me that the ISOs should be identical. I haven't yet had time to identify specific differences in the package contents.
