[Fedora-livecd-list] patch, manifest changes

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Feb 23 19:57:07 UTC 2007


Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
> > First, I eliminated docs from the livecd with a patch to
> > livecd-creator (attached).
> 
> Hmm... I'm not sure if we really want to do this unconditionally.  And
> given that we later can install from the live CD, is removing the docs
> something we really want to do?  

It's stuff in /usr/share/doc and info pages. Are either of those
appropriate for a *Desktop* livecd?

> Those bits are now at http://people.redhat.com/katzj/live/f7test1/ but a
> symlink points there.  I've put up what I've used for a proto-test2 live
> CD at http://people.redhat.com/katzj/live/f7test2pre (and I'll try and
> keep that current)

OK, will look at what I have and rediff.

> > gok
> > gnome-backgrounds
> > gnome-audio
> > nautilus-sendto
> > nautilus-sendto-bluetooth
> > monkey-bubble
> > gnome-blog
> 
> Didn't add any of these and I'm at ~ 15 megs to spare.  So some could
> be, but probably not all of them without the --nodocs bits

So, somehow this spin is now averaging between 706MB and 714MB
on my trials - it *shouldn't* be that big. Will do more investigating.

Bill




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