Perhaps a switch will enable --excludedocs on rpms being installed into
the live-cd and a tweak to yum would enable someone who liveinsts the
livecd to a disk to type run some new cmd like "yum updatedocs" or
something that gets the docs back?
To take this another level, stuff in rpms can be flagged as necessary /
extra and there can be an --excludeextras flag during rpm install and a
yum updateextras or yum installextras command to go add these back in?
Thanks,
MoeK
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[mailto:fedora-livecd-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeroen van
Meeuwen
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:56 AM
To: fedora-livecd-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Trimming the size of LiveCD's
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Douglas McClendon wrote:
/usr/(s)bin/liveinst is a bash wrapper around anaconda, that invokes
anaconda in a special way so that it uses the livecd filesystem
duplication method, instead of rpms.
The (perfectly normal) anaconda on the livecd, if invoked without the
liveinst wrapper, is capable of installing from a network or local
repository of rpms. Though for obvious reasons, no local repository
of
rpms has been included on the livecds.
It seems to me that if a livecd removes shit to save space, and anaconda
can still use a CD with RPM's on it, the problem of not being able to
install from a LiveCD is solved; Install from a LiveCD with stripped
contents using another CD that holds the RPMs.
However this may not be applicable to any of the Live Media the Fedora
Project releases, I see a use-case for *anyone else* wanting to produce
Live Media.
Back to the original topic; what could we possibly remove without all
"help" functions b0rking. I'm thinking INSTALL, ChangeLog/CHANGES,
README, etc files, as well as maybe a number of non-prominent utility
documentation sets (from the end-user POV, zlib-x.x.x documentation
really isn't relevant). For some packages even, we could maybe remove
the man pages as well (--excludedocs in extreme cases?)
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Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
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