On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Alexander Sack asac@linaro.org wrote:
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?
There might be a person out there somewhere who requested that feature. Safe to say, I don't think it was anyone from Linaro.
I'm probably going to add a little code to just delete the extra gorp if I can't find an option to outright turn it off. I want to get us up to the newer version sooner rather than later tho and address clean up like this or other bugs in the next week or so. Release early, release often as they say ;-)
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