[Mageia-dev] size of iso dvds

Florian Hubold doktor5000 at arcor.de
Tue Feb 14 19:17:35 CET 2012


Am 14.02.2012 18:39, schrieb Florian Hubold:
> Am 26.01.2012 20:56, schrieb Luc Menut:
>> Le 25/01/2012 21:21, Juergen Harms a écrit :
>>> I just joined this list - therefore top-posting rather than replying.
>>>
>>> Seeing the discussion on space on isos,
>> some data about differences between mageia 1 x86_64 DVD and mageia 2a3 x86_64
>> DVD:
>> mageia 1 : 3730 Mo - 4630 packages
>> mageia 2 : 4139 Mo - 4209 packages
>>
>> some new "big" packages in mga 2:
>> - *eclipse* ->        + 67 packages -> +302 Mo
>>   + lots of new java packages (ant, maven, ...)
>> - celtx* ->           +  7 packages -> +132 Mo
>> - e, e17_themes ->    +  2 packages ->  +36 Mo
>> - chromium-browser -> +  2 packages ->  +23 Mo
>>
>> some packages bigger than in mga 1:
>> - texlive* -> + 95Mo (mga1 306Mo, mga2 401Mo)
>>
>> packages that we will be able to remove in mga2:
>> - myspell* 39Mo (after hunspell migration)
>>
>>
>> some major missing packages in mga2 DVD ISO:
>> - lots of kde packages,
>> - gstreamer0.10-pulse,
>> - kernel-desktop-devel-latest,
>> - kernel-server-devel-latest,
>> - perhaps others :'(
>>
>> regards,
>> Luc
>>
> Somehow related, i just did some rpm size comparisons for thunderbird
> -l10n packages, to see what can be gained if we switch them back to
> uncompressing the (zipped) .xpi files and so let them profit from
> rpm binary payload compression. It's not much for a single package,
> but overall it's a reduction by 35%.
>
> Maybe this is a viable solution for other packages too, which currently
> carry files which are already compressed when building.
>
> Some numbers (total size of-l10n packages, followed by time output for
> the build to see the cost of this switch)
>
> ----
> .xpis unzipped -> using rpm default compression "_binary_payload    w5.lzdio"
>
> $ LC_ALL=C du -ch mozilla-thunderbird-*rpm
> 11M     total
>
> 182.92user 34.65system 3:55.54elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 188512maxresident)k
> 0inputs+482992outputs (0major+17025693minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> ----
>
> ----
> not unzipping .xpis:
>
> $ LC_ALL=C du -ch mozilla-thunderbird-*rpm
> 17M     total
>
> 20.89user 7.27system 0:31.57elapsed 89%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 109264maxresident)k
> 0inputs+356720outputs (0major+3218040minor)pagefaults 0swaps
> ----
>
> Will commit for cauldron shortly, but it won't make it into beta1, sorry.
>
To give proper credit, this idea is © by Annsi :)


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