Progress on a Fedora Spin...

[Jim Gettys]

At this point, I think we need to say good enough on size, and move onto
something we can start testing on SD, so we can see what's broken that
needs work. At this point, I think we need to say good enough on size;
it's more important to figure out where we need to work.

Thanks for all the great work, Sebastian and Jeremy....
                         - Jim


On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 20:03 +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> ...progress wherever you look...
> 
> We've done quite a big step forward in minimizing the size of a Fedora 
> Spin - thanks Jeremy! I've been creating spins over the day lately and 
> with the latest commit on livecd-tools, I'm more than happy that the 
> --instLangs argument for kickstart files does now work.
> 
> What does this mean? Well, we're able to reduce the size of the final 
> image heavily, so that we'll end up with more than 100 MB less of 
> /usr/share stuff on the spin.
> 
> Where are we now? I've been rebasing the spin to Rawhide (F10), which is 
> still not that stable now, but I think this will change more soon than 
> late. The latest image I built has a size of 323 MB (!) - excluding 
> claws-mail due to some dependency issues in Rawhide right now. 
> Apparently, there's still some cups and other stuff in there, so we 
> might still get lower...
> 
> I'm pretty excited and would really like to thank Jeremy for his work :)
> 
> --Sebastian
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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child