Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Aug 27 09:47:12 UTC 2008


Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Playing with a minimal Pungi kickstart file I get an install CD of
> about 500MB. If I add the xs-pkgs dependencies, things balloon to
> 759MB, no longer fitting in a CD. My guess is that a good 1/3 of that
> is related to the graphical installer and related dependencies which
> we don't want on the installed CD.
> 
> It's not a complete deal breaker, but I prefer to distribute images
> that are small, and ideally fit on 1 CD.
> 
> Jerry, you mentioned that fiddling with comps.xml was an option? How
> do you do that? ;-)

You fiddle with the comps.xml file and redefine packages that are 
included in the different groups that are part of your compose like 
@core. If they are not direct dependencies, you might be able to reduce 
the content.

Rahul




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