On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:07:04PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote: > On May 22, Steve Haslam wrote: > > OK, I'll poke around with what I've got at the moment and see if I can find > > out why these packages are being brought in... maybe I'll just drop a load > > of them into an exclude list.... > > I believe "make status" is responsible for most of the bloat; if you > poke around in that part of the makefile, you can probably streamline > it. (I also recommend getting the latest debian-cd out of CVS if you > haven't already; make status seems to have been trimmed a bit lately > in the mainline debian-cd. My code was a bit less subtle and just > makes a smaller status file on its own using debootstrap IIRC.)
OK, thanks. Dropping kernel-* etc. into an exclude file certainly seemed to work as a nasty fix though. So I'm getting reasonably sized ISOs, although I notice the jigdo template file doesn't get significantly smaller :| I guess the template just contains a few less "loads of zeroes until this .deb file here" entries. SRH -- Steve Haslam http://www.arise.demon.co.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your heart has been ruptured and it will never heal To get another heart you'll have to steal [leæther strip]
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