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

[Mohammed_Khan at Dell.com]

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 at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jeroen van
Meeuwen
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 4:56 AM
To: fedora-livecd-list at 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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