I've been playing to see how much more we can fit on the live CD for test 2.
First, I eliminated docs from the livecd with a patch to livecd-creator (attached).
Then, I started adding and removing things. Based on Jeremy's test1 configs at http://people.redhat.com/katzj/f7live/, I made the following changes:
Added ----- attr bind-utils gnome-screensaver pcmciautils termcap crontabs ppp rp-pppoe wvdial logrotate mdadm smolt nfs-utils readahead rhgb gok gnome-backgrounds gnome-audio nautilus-sendto nautilus-sendto-bluetooth monkey-bubble gnome-blog
Removed ------- emacs xchat-gnome
This yields a 678MB Live CD, so we've still got a decent amount of room for changes.
(SRPM for fedora-livecd attached)
Bill
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 13:46 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
I've been playing to see how much more we can fit on the live CD for test 2.
Always the fun part (or not)
First, I eliminated docs from the livecd with a patch to livecd-creator (attached).
Hmm... I'm not sure if we really want to do this unconditionally. And given that we later can install from the live CD, is removing the docs something we really want to do?
Then, I started adding and removing things. Based on Jeremy's test1 configs at http://people.redhat.com/katzj/f7live/, I made the following changes:
Those bits are now at http://people.redhat.com/katzj/live/f7test1/ but a symlink points there. I've put up what I've used for a proto-test2 live CD at http://people.redhat.com/katzj/live/f7test2pre (and I'll try and keep that current)
Added
attr bind-utils gnome-screensaver pcmciautils termcap crontabs ppp rp-pppoe wvdial logrotate mdadm smolt nfs-utils readahead
These are all in my list
rhgb
Not added because it's incredibly painful for a live CD right now... and I keep hoping that we're going to get to kill rhgb before F7. Although the chances of that seem to be dwindling :(
gok gnome-backgrounds gnome-audio nautilus-sendto nautilus-sendto-bluetooth monkey-bubble gnome-blog
Didn't add any of these and I'm at ~ 15 megs to spare. So some could be, but probably not all of them without the --nodocs bits
Removed
emacs xchat-gnome
I took out xchat-gnome, emacs is still there. It's probably worth killing for some subset of the above too.
Jeremy
It would be nicer if we could find somebody to cut down some overgrown packages, e.g. perform voicectomy on festival
Jeremy Katz (katzj@redhat.com) said:
First, I eliminated docs from the livecd with a patch to livecd-creator (attached).
Hmm... I'm not sure if we really want to do this unconditionally. And given that we later can install from the live CD, is removing the docs something we really want to do?
It's stuff in /usr/share/doc and info pages. Are either of those appropriate for a *Desktop* livecd?
Those bits are now at http://people.redhat.com/katzj/live/f7test1/ but a symlink points there. I've put up what I've used for a proto-test2 live CD at http://people.redhat.com/katzj/live/f7test2pre (and I'll try and keep that current)
OK, will look at what I have and rediff.
gok gnome-backgrounds gnome-audio nautilus-sendto nautilus-sendto-bluetooth monkey-bubble gnome-blog
Didn't add any of these and I'm at ~ 15 megs to spare. So some could be, but probably not all of them without the --nodocs bits
So, somehow this spin is now averaging between 706MB and 714MB on my trials - it *shouldn't* be that big. Will do more investigating.
Bill
Bill Nottingham (notting@redhat.com) said:
Didn't add any of these and I'm at ~ 15 megs to spare. So some could be, but probably not all of them without the --nodocs bits
So, somehow this spin is now averaging between 706MB and 714MB on my trials - it *shouldn't* be that big. Will do more investigating.
This is because of gok -> gnome-speech -> festival.
I built with the attached diff, and got 681MB, so we've still got some wiggle room.
Bill
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:43 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
Not added because it's incredibly painful for a live CD right now... and I keep hoping that we're going to get to kill rhgb before F7. Although the chances of that seem to be dwindling :(
We looked at doing so, but decided we weren't going to do significantly better until we got modesetting in the kernel. Looks like an F8 task at the earliest.
Thanks, -Jonathan
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