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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Gábor Boskovits" <boskovits@gmail.com>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Iso image size
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 10:23:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87609d62j7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4v=pgSUoawnq=Q=vmKqG7oqWoNpYVjWZ1PzAt=p1XtUTYEsg@mail.gmail.com> ("Gábor Boskovits"'s message of "Fri, 8 Dec 2017 08:06:33 +0100")

Hello,

Gábor Boskovits <boskovits@gmail.com> skribis:

> I don't know what we are currently doing to get the installer iso image
> sized down, but I caught some discussion yesterday on irc, that the image
> is actually very well compressible, and checking the sizes it really is.
>
> Might that be possible to do something like compressing the root filesystem
> image on the iso image, and decompress it from initrd before mounting?

Wouldn’t it be complex and memory-intensive?

To me the efforts should go into reducing the size of our packages.  For
example, in ‘core-updates’, guile, glibc, and guix are already
noticeably smaller; likewise, the recently-introduced ‘groff-minimal’
allowed us to get rid of Perl in the installation system closure.  We
should keep working in that direction IMO.

Ludo’.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-11  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-08  7:06 Iso image size Gábor Boskovits
2017-12-08  8:37 ` ng0
2017-12-08  9:07   ` ng0
2017-12-08  9:14   ` Manolis Ragkousis
2017-12-08  9:34     ` ng0
2017-12-11  9:23 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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