[Fedora-livecd-list] Revisor creates a very large iso image

[Lars Bjørndal]

Jeroen van Meeuwen <kanarip at kanarip.com> writes:

> Lars Bjørndal wrote:
>> The command 'git branch' gives me only * master. So how do I grab the
>> F-8 branch of Revisor?
>> 
>
> Go to the revisor source tree you have now, and go up one directory
>
> Type:
>
> git clone --reference <current-source> \
>     git://git.fedorahosted.org/revisor \
>     <new-folder>
>
> cd <new-folder>
>
> git checkout --track -b <new-branch> origin/<branch>
>
> Well, I'll give you an example:
>
> [user at machine ~]$ mkdir -p devel/revisor
> [user at machine ~]$ cd devel/revisor
>
> $ git clone git://git.fedorahosted.org/revisor master
> # This will clone the master branch into sub-directory master
>
> $ git clone --reference master git://git.fedorahosted.org/revisor F-8
> # This will create a F-8 sub-directory based on the master/ sub-
> # directory
>
>
> $ cd F-8
>
> $ git checkout --track -b F-8 origin/F-8
> # This will checkout branch F-8, and switch to that branch
>
> Hope this helps,

Yes, it did!

But when I now try to build a livecd, I get lots of questions if I
want to continue even if packages like ppc64-utils, elilo, s390utils
and many more does not exist. What should I do to eliminate this
problem? I'm building on and for Fedora F8 i386 system.

Lars