[arch-releng] our core-dual images are too big

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu May 5 20:25:52 EDT 2011


On 06/05/11 01:50, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> the size of core-dual iso has been over 700MB for a while.
> the last one is 738MB.
> See http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2011.04.30/
>
> what would be the best way to fix this? different archiso2dual
> parameters? different compression somewhere? revised packagelist?
> moving some packages out of core? [is anyone aware of noticeable size
> increases of the core repo or core packages?]
>

You can get rid of gcc-{fortran,objc,ada,go} which are only in [core] 
due to limitations of our repo scripts.

Allan


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