Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Determining Directories / Files to get rid of
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 17:50:02
Message-Id: 1114451394.889.56.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-catalyst] Determining Directories / Files to get rid of by derek tracy
1 On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:43 -0400, derek tracy wrote:
2 > I just wanted to know how everybody goes through the process of
3 > determining what files / directories are needed for the livecd to
4 > function properly.
5 >
6 > So far I have been doing the good ol' faithful get it working then
7 > remove some stuff and rebuild to see if anything broke. This takes
8 > forever and a day. Does anyone have any pointers on how to make the
9 > resulting iso smaller without going through this pain-staking process?
10
11 That's pretty much what I did when creating the very long list from the
12 livecd-stage2 spec files used to build 2004.3 and 2005.0 releases. I
13 wish I had a better method, but I don't.
14
15 If anyone comes up with one, I'd love to hear about it.
16
17 --
18 Chris Gianelloni
19 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
20 Games - Developer
21 Gentoo Linux

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