On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:05:32AM -0000, Oliver Grawert wrote: > note that we are not shipping *any* package lists today, it is 0 vs > whatever tens of MB we add by removing the patch, there is no "slightly > bigger" > > also this patch isnt enough i think, IIRC there are other places in > livecd-rootfs where the package lists are forcefully removed to make > sure we dont waste space on them, please also make the product team > aware before making this change, since this limits the allowed space > the custom tarball can occupy. > > also check if there are any developer tools that might use the deb-src > entries for pulling build deps or whatnot (and add another patch to > remove all teh deb-src entries). using apport-cli will be done by > perhaps 1% of the users, since you need to use a terminal or developer > mode to even execute it, do we really want to make everyone suffer by > this instead of working out a proper solution that doesnt waste our > extremely limited free space for a feature used by a fraction of users > ?
Keep in mind that, as I mentioned in comment #13, this does not just affect apport-cli but also prevents people who have opted into reporting crashes from sending their core dumps because the packages will have an unknown origin. -- Brian Murray -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1471903 Title: -updates, -security missing from apt lists To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/live-build/+bug/1471903/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
