[Fedora-livecd-list] 3 more megs if we get rid of redundant copy of kernel?

[Douglas McClendon]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> On 07/16/2009 04:07 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>> On Wednesday, July 15 2009, Douglas McClendon said:
>>> In my livecd generation tools I go to a bit of extra hassle to play
>>> symlink games with /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r), such that it doesn't get
>>> put into the squashfs, since a copy of it is in the container iso/usb
>>> filesystem.
>>>
>>> Maybe we want to do that for f12?  It is a bit messy, but I think it's
>>> worth it for 3/700M.
>>
>> Nope, it breaks the ability to easily install by copying over the
>> filesystem.  And when you consider that someone may be booting via pxe
>> and then trying to install (see livecd-iso-to-pxeboot), there's no
>> guarantee that we can get that file back.
>>
> 
> OTOH, someone may opt-in to remove the duplicate files or foo or bar 
> basically breaking this feature which is not essential to the concept of 
> Live media (but is a Fedora feature and so must be on all Fedora 
> released Live media).

Well, maybe it might break something else, but I corrected Jeremy on the 
livecd-is-to-pxeboot case.

> 
> An 'rm' in %post would be too early, and so the "user" is out of 
> alternatives.
> 
> I'd suggest if someone really wants to remove the kernel from the 
> filesystem before it is squashed, but after it has been copied, they 
> write a plugin for Revisor and send me the patch ;-)

If only there were a thousand hours in a day...

peace/out...

-dmc