[arch-releng] our core-dual images are too big

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Thu May 5 18:23:27 EDT 2011


On 05/05/2011 07:20 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 12:59 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 05.05.2011 17:50, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck:
>>> the size of core-dual iso has been over 700MB for a while.
>>> the last one is 738MB.
>>> See http://releng.archlinux.org/isos/2011.04.30/
>>>
>>> what would be the best way to fix this? different archiso2dual
>>> parameters? different compression somewhere? revised packagelist?
>>> moving some packages out of core? [is anyone aware of noticeable size
>>> increases of the core repo or core packages?]
> I will change the default -c from gzip to xz in fews minutes.
ignore me, this is already the default.
http://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/commit/?id=c258897df3ad99932c6a5770fd6a32e364070e7a

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