Re: [Thinstation-developer] Thinstation 2.3-svn boot image size

[Daniel M. <ea...@cy...>]

Hi Mike,

>> One of the reason was quite obvious - all those .svn directories ended
>> up in the initrd. I'm going to modify the build script so that
>> everything named .svn gets either deleted from tmp-tree before the
>> creation of the initrd or is being ignored while building the initrd.
>>
>> Mike, Trevor - if think thats a good idea I'll send a patch later.
> 
> find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

Yeah, that would be the easy approach, but one has to do that after
every svn checkout. So I thought ignoring them (by basicliy doing the
same find, pipe the result to a file and use mksquashfs -ef excludefile
...) would be the better way.

>> The second reason is the base xorg7 package. The size of packages/xorg6
>> is 17mb, the size of packages/xorg7 is 97(!) mb. Most of the stuff is in
>> the fonts directory - maybe it would be a nice idea to split the fonts
>> into a seperate package?
> 
> Has already been done but not yet commited.

Ah, glad to hear that, I'll just ignore the size problem for now.

>> I just checked the hardware stats which my thinstation management
>> solution reports - we have 500+ thinstations up and running, and about
>> 60 of them have less then 64 mb ram. So the increased image size is kind
>> of a showstopper for us :-)
> 
> My typical 9 MB image for a 2.2.2 build is now ~14 MB for 2.3beta. A
> lot of stuff aren't even striped yet, so there is hope.

A few megs I can deal with, but the increase of 20+ mb was rather...
heavy. But again, I'll ignore the image size and focus on getting
everything working, especially my management stuff.

Danny