On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:08 PM, Tom Gall <tom.gall@linaro.org> wrote:
The change in format of the tarball also means that the rootfs
tarballs will appear to be larger. Don't panic. Once installed with
linaro-media-create the installed image sizes are close to what they
were in natty. The reason for the extra size is live-build is putting
a copy of all the installed .debs into the tarball.


Is inclusion of .debs a wanted feature or a side-effect from the new
live-build version? What's the expected average growth in size of the
download artifacts?


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