I've started taking a look at the size of the RPMs and the contents.. and it's really nasty :)
The cloudstack-common package for instance.. has been over 100MB for at least a few versions... looking into that.. there's a duplication of files regarding the systemvm iso... rpm -qlp cloudstack-common* shows: /usr/share/cloudstack-common/vms/systemvm.iso /usr/share/cloudstack-common/vms/systemvm.zip Zipping this is redundant, since the iso is already compressed. This gets BOTH files into the RPM and subsequently into the server's filesystem: [root@testcloud cloudstack]# ls -lah /usr/share/cloudstack-common/vms/ total 114M drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 44 Apr 25 11:27 . drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 40 Apr 25 11:27 .. -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 57M Apr 25 11:18 systemvm.iso -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 57M Apr 25 11:18 systemvm.zip waste of space in both the rpm and the filesystem... it should take half the size. I see no particular benefit on using a zipped version of that iso.. altough an extra set of files need to be edited to get rid of that (like patchsystemvm.sh). This also happens for other packages like cloudstack-management* A lot of .css and .js files are getting compressed and then including both versions into the RPM and finally both versions into the filesystem.. you can check all those duplicate files, for example, in /usr/share/cloudstack-management/webapps/client/scripts/ This directory alone should save us a few megabytes in the RPM and Filesystem.
