-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:11:02PM +0000, Unman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 08:32:50PM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm building what hopefully will be R4.0-rc4 and I have two
> > reflections:
> > 
> > 1. After upgrading templates to fedora-26 and debian-9, there is no way
> > the installation image will fit on DVD. Right now it takes 4908384256
> > bytes. We probably could try to cut it down by eliminating even more
> > packages from templates, but I think there is no much non-essential
> > packages left there. For example we no longer ship vim in debian-9.
> > Right now I see two options:
> >  - abandon the goal of fitting the image on DVD (I'd go for this)
> >  - exclude some template from default installation...
>
> I would , of course, favour a Debian system as default.

But until we migrate dom0 to something else, we need to ship fedora
template too, because it works better for downloading dom0 updates (the
same tool resolve dependencies, yum version in Debian is much older, and
there is no dnf at all).

> However, it would be useful if you could give the relative template
> sizes on the current build.

Sure[1][2]:
 
 fedora-26: 1643586746 bytes
 debian-9:   722214642 bytes
 whonix-gw:  504932958 bytes
 whonix-ws:  705727858 bytes

fedora-26, as default template for AppVMs, contains default user
applications, like Firefox, Thunderbird. Shipping a _desktop_ operating
system without web browser isn't going to work...

But maybe there is a chance to trim Fedora template slightly...
Frédéric, do you see something that could easily be done there?

> As far as trimming the templates, there is some scope for this, but one
> of the problems is that people want what THEY like. Look at issue 1781 for
> a great example of this.
> 
> Cant dom0 be trimmed further?

That's a good question. List of packages, sorted by size is here:
https://gist.github.com/marmarek/cb9fa3d82e3aba6cd15c78854b184f10

For example I see two fonts packages (adobe-source-han-*) using together
over 70MB.

> I am strongly in favour of an image that fits on a DVD - would there be
> any reason not to offer Fedora and Debian as alternatives if the size
> issue proves insuperable?

Providing two images means some more work, more testing etc, so I'd like
to avoid that. But if there will no better option, that could be done.

[1] https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-itl/rpm/
[2] https://yum.qubes-os.org/r4.0/templates-community/rpm/

- -- 
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEhrpukzGPukRmQqkK24/THMrX1ywFAlpipD0ACgkQ24/THMrX
1yxY8Af/aiT/HgU6q20GocElHqwIjn0k2Wh7ZCADiZqPMtgViWvKRTggzMPtCBLV
ltnngAcLZExR866eyo8UIYU31yw5XWQM6SL0J0K9wZKkFcYnUqmvev7Owf6WibGy
a8N5Sn4cuQpqqyvDLhX4AMb+S+ITx/wSZmcL0rt/Oh2zCTQUdaM8q4ONjZEjtxvH
2GnuRL70qBSaJs6v6i6w1rYVJiDzqDC3l176eYh/xCbM/jlfqXwsn6tgdK+Iyi5R
hwtXdAN9e0h5ZQ56pWMBDORuXT2rDLQavJZnpmKKdglBF/E9XmyLvYR48FuLWbB3
3SW11qgol6Y7KmbRpYU0pDwhOYOOnA==
=0YUP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"qubes-devel" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email 
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
To view this discussion on the web visit 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/20180120020653.GO2653%40mail-itl.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

Reply via email to