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Re: Remastering LiveCDs - how to keep unnecessary data out



On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:11:57AM +0000, ][ wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:15:49 -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
> > what other files and directories can I leave out of the squashfs to
> > make the whole thing a bit smaller?
> 
> >From my personal archive:
> 
> A 'clean-up' script called 'remaster-clean' will be included with this
[...]
> retrieved from 
> http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Remaster_From_Hd_Install_HowTo
> less than a year ago. 
> 
> check out the rest there. 

Eep. Even after running the cleanup script, the process of doing an
apt-get update and reinstalling one package increases the size of the
squashfs from 685M to 1.1G. It seems like all it does in terms of
cleaning up after apt/dpkg is to call 'apt-get clean' which apparently
only removes .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archives - the
meta-information sticks around, and that is quite huge in Debian.
The cleanup script does provide a nifty tool to build upon, though!

Thanks,
 --j

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