From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Release! Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2017 15:01:42 +0200 Message-ID: <87k208pgzt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877f16z9eo.fsf@gnu.org> <87infv54m3.fsf@gnu.org> <20171005201853.436cfcd6@cbaines.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55837) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0SGD-0004LI-0h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:01:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e0SG9-0003R1-42 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Oct 2017 09:01:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20171005201853.436cfcd6@cbaines.net> (Christopher Baines's message of "Thu, 5 Oct 2017 20:18:53 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Christopher Baines Cc: guix-devel Heya! Christopher Baines skribis: > Unfortunately, building the ISO image has broken since I was > successfully using it [1]. Oops, weird. Let=E2=80=99s investigate. > One other issue I was thinking of recently was the size of the image. I > checked an ISO of the installation system I generated a while ago, and > it's 1.1GB in size. A actual CD can only hold 0.7GB of data. This might > be something that just needs documenting, saying that this is for a > DVD, and not a CD, or, it the size could be reduced so that it fits on > a CD. > > When I build the installation system, and run guix size, it says 1031.0 > MiB, so I guess looking at the breakdown there and trying to reduce it > would be a way to start, if this is a worthwhile objective. We can do both. :-) I think reducing the size of package closures in general is worthwhile=E2=80=94there=E2=80=99s room for progress. Yet, we probably won=E2=80=99t make it fit in 650=C2=A0MiB this easily, so = we should document this. Thanks for your feedback, Ludo=E2=80=99. > 1: guix system disk-image --file-system-type=3Diso9660 > gnu/system/install.scm > > error: changing mode of > `/tmp/root//gnu/store/jjna4ivyidxfq40mq78g97yzg0wfzcqy-shadow-4.5/bin/su' > to 100555: Operation not permitted ERROR: In procedure scm-error: > ERROR: failed to register store items "/xchg/system"