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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 05 May 2011 21:38:14 -0300
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:

> On 05/05/2011 09:25 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> > 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
> >
> $ pacman -Si gcc-ada gcc-fortran gcc-go gcc-objc | awk
> '/^Do/{p=p+$4}; END{print p,p*2}'
> 27745.7 55491.4
> 
> We can skip these packages in download-repo.sh.
> 

I agree we shouldn't restrict ourselves any longer to cd-r size
limitations, OTOH if we can keep our images <700MB with relative ease
and that way support cd-r's, then i prefer that.  also: optimizing size
is always useful. (less storage/bandwith intensive)

adding exceptions in download-repo.sh to work around limitations in our
repo scripts is not the way to go imho.  let's get those packages out
of core the proper way, and let's see if/how we can cut another 10MB.

Dieter