[Fedora-spins] nigtly spin of KDE live images: huge difference in size for x86_64

[Sebastian Vahl]

Am Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:40:08 -0600
schrieb Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com>:

> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:39:52 +0200
> Sebastian Vahl <deadbabylon at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the current [1] nightly spin of the x86_64 kde live image is 12 megs
> > bigger than my local one. So I've downloaded the spin to compare the
> > package lists and I see absolutely no difference. For comparison:
> > 
> > {%name}-%version-%[release}:
> > http://deadbabylon.de/fedora/livecd/packagelists/f12/long-F12-KDE-035-i686.txt
> > http://deadbabylon.de/fedora/livecd/packagelists/f12/long-kde-x86_64-20090817.txt
> > 
> > %{name} %{size}:
> > http://deadbabylon.de/fedora/livecd/packagelists/f12/size-name-F12-KDE-035-x86_64.txt
> > http://deadbabylon.de/fedora/livecd/packagelists/f12/size-kde-x86_64-20090817.txt
> > 
> > So I'm just curious why this happens. I assume you're only running
> > on spinning at once? I'm asking because I've seen the image
> > increasing in size when my machine was busy with other things.
> 
> Yeah, it does them one at a time and doesn't do anything else. 
> 
> I'm not sure what would explain the difference in size. :( 


It seems that the recent changes to livecd-creator fixes the problem
with failing resize2fs at least partly. Yesterdays images are way
better:
kde-i386-20090824.15.iso   24-Aug-2009 17:13  629M  
kde-x86_64-20090824.15.iso 24-Aug-2009 17:34  635M 

Sebastian
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