F14-build size

[Yioryos Asprobounitis]

--- On Wed, 5/25/11, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> From: James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org>
> Subject: Re: F14-build size
> To: "Yioryos Asprobounitis" <mavrothal at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "OLPC Devel" <devel at lists.laptop.org>
> Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 4:13 AM
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:50:03AM
> -0700, Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote:
> > [1] http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.msg33320#msg33320
> 
> This poster kimtoufectis somehow conflates build size with
> swap space,
> but the important points are covered; that there is little
> "disk" space
> for installing new activities or downloading files. 
> These points can't
> be fixed by adding swap space, and so the remainder of the
> argument
> relating to swap space as a complex solution can be
> dismissed.
> 
> One argument isn't described there, and that is that
> olpc-update fails.
> This is covered in the 10.1.3 release notes in the Update
> section.
> 
> I can't find a bug in the 11.2.0 series that looks for a
> way to trim the
> builds.
> 
> Removing unwanted activities is the fastest way to free up
> space.  The
> available space is shown when you right-click on the
> journal.
> 
> I agree that the build is too big on the XO-1, leaving
> insufficient free
> space on disk.  I don't agree that swap space is
> required.

If you kept reading you'd have seen that these were my points too ;)

http://www.olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=4965.msg33323#msg33323


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