[Server-devel] Pungi minimal installer, comps.xml trick

[Martin Langhoff]

Playing with a minimal Pungi kickstart file I get an install CD of
about 500MB. If I add the xs-pkgs dependencies, things balloon to
759MB, no longer fitting in a CD. My guess is that a good 1/3 of that
is related to the graphical installer and related dependencies which
we don't want on the installed CD.

It's not a complete deal breaker, but I prefer to distribute images
that are small, and ideally fit on 1 CD.

Jerry, you mentioned that fiddling with comps.xml was an option? How
do you do that? ;-)

This is how I am building the F9 XS images -

sudo pungi -c kickstarts/pungi-f9-minimal.ks --nosource --name XS
--ver=0.5dev --force --discs=1 --nosplitmedia

And pungi-f9-minimal.ks contains...

## These are public repos
repo --name=release
--mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-9&arch=$basearch
repo --name=olpc7 --baseurl=ttp://fedora.laptop.org/xs/testing/olpc/7/i386
repo --name=olpc9 --baseurl=http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/testing/olpc/9/i386

## I actually use these local copies :-)
#repo --name=fedora --baseurl=file:///media/disk/xs/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/
#repo --name=everything
--baseurl=file:///media/disk/xs/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/
#repo --name=olpc7 --baseurl=file:///xsrepos/testing/olpc/7/i386/
#repo --name=olpc9 --baseurl=http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/testing/olpc/9/i386

%packages --nobase
#@core
bash
kernel
passwd
policycoreutils
chkconfig
authconfig
rootfiles
anaconda-runtime
#-gnome*
#-cairo
#-xorg-x11-server-Xorg

xs-config
xs-pkgs

%end

cheers,



m
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