On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Michael Tautschnig <<a href="mailto:tautschn@model.in.tum.de" target="_blank">tautschn@model.in.tum.de</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div>> Michael Tautschnig wrote:<br>
>>> Andreas Sindermann wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> [snip...]<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Perhaps in your package_config files you install with 'aptitude -r'<br>
>>>> instead of simple aptitude?<br>
>>> I only use 'install'.<br>>><br>
>> Which distro are you using? Is it lenny or etch?<br>
><br>
> lenny<br><br>
</div></div>Could you try hacking the fai-mirror script, at the point where the aptoptions<br>
variables is set: Add -o Apt::Install-Recommends=false, just like the other<br>
options. Does this help?<br>
</blockquote></div><br>It does help but there are still things I don't understand. The size of
our ISO built with this hack has dropped from about 560MB to about
495MB. There is still variations building from a full debian mirror I get an 508MB ISO . Building from a partial mirror the ISO drops to 497MB. This partial mirror is a proper subset of the full-mirror containing every package pulled from the full mirror during an ISO build and nothing else.<br>
<br>I find this behavior puzzling. It seems to me that the ISOs should be identical. I haven't yet had time to identify specific differences in the package contents.<br>