[PATCH] Exclude directories from squashfs filesystem
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 04:35:30PM +0200, Maarten ter Huurne wrote:
> Attached is a proposed patch for an option to exclude files or
> directories from the squashfs root filesystem. The motivation for
> this feature is to be able to create smaller ISO images. For
> example, the following list of excludes makes the ISO about 7MB
> smaller: var/cache/apt var/lib/apt var/lib/dpkg
>
> Removing these directories from the chroot does not work, since the
> chroot is also used for installing tools and removing the
> administrative directories of apt and dpkg breaks those
> installations. Excluding them when running mksquashfs does not have
> that problem.
...unless you want to apt-get install something while the system is
running. I call "apt-get clean" instead, which at least gets rid of
the .debs.
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