Bonus packages in fai-mirror

Michael Tautschnig tautschn at model.in.tum.de
Fri Mar 21 20:23:13 CET 2008


[...]
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.

I guess this should be the key to diagnosing the problem. It seems to me that
install_packages refrains from installing some of the packages into the mirror
due to missing dependencies or the like. Weird.

Best,
Michael


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