[Mageia-dev] size of iso dvds

Tue Feb 14 19:17:35 CET 2012

Am 14.02.2012 18:39, schrieb Florian Hubold:
+> Am 26.01.2012 20:56, schrieb Luc Menut:
+>> Le 25/01/2012 21:21, Juergen Harms a écrit :
+>>> I just joined this list - therefore top-posting rather than replying.
+>>>
+>>> Seeing the discussion on space on isos,
+>> some data about differences between mageia 1 x86_64 DVD and mageia 2a3 x86_64
+>> DVD:
+>> mageia 1 : 3730 Mo - 4630 packages
+>> mageia 2 : 4139 Mo - 4209 packages
+>>
+>> some new "big" packages in mga 2:
+>> - *eclipse* ->        + 67 packages -> +302 Mo
+>>   + lots of new java packages (ant, maven, ...)
+>> - celtx* ->           +  7 packages -> +132 Mo
+>> - e, e17_themes ->    +  2 packages ->  +36 Mo
+>> - chromium-browser -> +  2 packages ->  +23 Mo
+>>
+>> some packages bigger than in mga 1:
+>> - texlive* -> + 95Mo (mga1 306Mo, mga2 401Mo)
+>>
+>> packages that we will be able to remove in mga2:
+>> - myspell* 39Mo (after hunspell migration)
+>>
+>>
+>> some major missing packages in mga2 DVD ISO:
+>> - lots of kde packages,
+>> - gstreamer0.10-pulse,
+>> - kernel-desktop-devel-latest,
+>> - kernel-server-devel-latest,
+>> - perhaps others :'(
+>>
+>> regards,
+>> Luc
+>>
+> Somehow related, i just did some rpm size comparisons for thunderbird
+> -l10n packages, to see what can be gained if we switch them back to
+> uncompressing the (zipped) .xpi files and so let them profit from
+> rpm binary payload compression. It's not much for a single package,
+> but overall it's a reduction by 35%.
+>
+> Maybe this is a viable solution for other packages too, which currently
+> carry files which are already compressed when building.
+>
+> Some numbers (total size of-l10n packages, followed by time output for
+> the build to see the cost of this switch)
+>
+> ----
+> .xpis unzipped -> using rpm default compression "_binary_payload    w5.lzdio"
+>
+> $ LC_ALL=C du -ch mozilla-thunderbird-*rpm
+> 11M     total
+>
+> 182.92user 34.65system 3:55.54elapsed 92%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 188512maxresident)k
+> 0inputs+482992outputs (0major+17025693minor)pagefaults 0swaps
+> ----
+>
+> ----
+> not unzipping .xpis:
+>
+> $ LC_ALL=C du -ch mozilla-thunderbird-*rpm
+> 17M     total
+>
+> 20.89user 7.27system 0:31.57elapsed 89%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 109264maxresident)k
+> 0inputs+356720outputs (0major+3218040minor)pagefaults 0swaps
+> ----
+>
+> Will commit for cauldron shortly, but it won't make it into beta1, sorry.
+>
+To give proper credit, this idea is © by Annsi :)
+