[Fedora-livecd-list] Trimming the size of LiveCD's

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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>> Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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>>>> Here's a thought:
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>>>> 1304 random packages will install 724 MB of data in /usr/share/doc
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>>>> I'm sure there is /something/ to gain here. If every package on average
>>>> installs ~0.5 MB of docs... Would it worth figuring out what docs
>>>> should
>>>> be on the LiveCD in the first place? I guess removing everything RPM
>>>> calls docs is too much, as this will include man-pages as well.
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?
>>>>
>>>>   
>>> I think it is a bad idea, because many people uses the Live CD's to
>>> install to their systems, and then they end up with a system
>>> without doc files, with no easy way to get the docs back on the systems.
>>>
>>
>> That's not true as anaconda needs the RPMs to install to a system,
>> right? Last time I checked a LiveCD could not be installed "offline"
>> because of this.
> 
> I think you really need to check again.  The current liveinst installer
> (which uses the LiveCDCopy anaconda backend) does not need the rpms, it
> just copies the ext3 filesystem image block for block from the livecd to
> the disk.  i.e. all those threads in the past about the livecd installer
> wiping the root partition, formatting the root partition twice, being
> able to be sped up by 20+% with my turboLiveInst patch that jeremy is
> afraid of, etc...
> 

Should the way liveinst installer installs to the user's system limit
what space we can save on a LiveCD? I don't think so. Just like there's
a use-case for installing from a LiveCD, there's a use case for "rm
- -rf'ing" as much as one can to save space on the Live Media.

Does liveinst still support installing from RPMs as well?

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Jeroen van Meeuwen
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