Re: Nightly attempts of live image creation

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 17:46 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:18 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/development-live/Live/i686/
> 
> > - full list of packages with sizes
> 
> We have this, just not sorted in a good way just yet.  That'll be easy
> to fix.
> 
> > - lists of new/removed packages compared to the beta/last snapshot
> 
> That is there now, for both beta and the last day's attempt.
> 
> > - list of size changes for all packages (including shrinkage) compare to
> > last snapshot. 
> 
> There.
> 
> > This list would imo be more useful, if the size change
> > was given in absolute terms and the list were sorted by size change. The
> > relative change you are showing now is not really helpful in finding the
> > big offenders, since 50% of a tiny package is still irrelevant.
> 
> The growth and shrinkage are sorted by the absolute amount of growth or
> shrinkage.  The adds and removals are sorted by the size of the package.
> 
> Hoping this helps!
> 

Very nice, thanks Jesse. Of course, the next step is that we need a
script to do a similar comparison for the files in an individual
package. Or does some rpmutils package already ship such a tool ?