[Live-demo] 4.0rc7 Trimming for Space

[Brian Hamlin]

On Aug 11, 2010, at 5:21 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> The installers are one of the reasons I can get people to pick up the
> DVD at conferences. I think I can migrate the uDig quickstart to use
> the natural earth dataset; this would allow the 25megs of uDig sample
> data to be removed.
>

sure, Installers are useful.. no question. Free installers more so..
is it really 'hook' to get someone to use a LiveDVD ?  to get more 
involved in a project?
less clear

> Talking with Cameron some space can be saved by removing the .svn
> information (which actually adds up over time).
>

I am definitely not picking out uDig by choice..  just so you know
just grappling with this unhappy choice..
svn info is a start.. but its ~350 MB that has to go..
great work that the build log generates that disk usage info...
very handy for this moment..


> Jody
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Brian Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> 
> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2010, at 4:48 PM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>>
>>> So we're a bit over on space at ~4.7-4.8(4.74) GB
>>> That means we need to trim 340 MB from the final in order to be able 
>>> to
>>> burn a DVD. So that's either ~680 MB worth of stuff in the live OS
>>> and/or 340 from the Windows/Mac installers.
>>>
>>> By no means all of the options, just some obvious ones
>>> Option 1: Remove the Mac Installers ~ 530MB Savings
>>>
>>
>> Option 1 makes no sense at all..
>>  a *lot* of developers are using Macs, and increasingly so..
>>
>>
>>> Option 2: Remove non-OSGeo Installers ~ 411.9MB Savings
>>>        Things that would be removed:
>>>        Mac: php5 45.3 MB, udig 86 MB, R 36.8 MB
>>>        Win: Kosmo 117.6 MB, udig 93.8MB,opencpn 14.6,maptiler 
>>> 12.5,saga
>>> 5.3
>>>
>>
>> Option 2 as stated...
>>  it appears that about 60+mb of that could stay, also..
>>
>>> Option 3: Trim more stuff from the live portion.
>>
>>> We are a bit tight on time, so my choice is option 2 as a quick, 
>>> clear
>>> way to do it. I would much prefer option 3 but don't think it's
>>> practical to meet our deadline.
>>>
>>
>> for the record, installers have always seemed like a separate disk 
>> project
>> to me..
>> the benefits of a documented, pre-configured Linux are abundant...
>>
>> Installer packages can be had, one by one, any day of the week
>> and, get stale right away..
>>
>> but, times up.. got to live with that is there now..
>> $0.02
>>  -Brian
>>
>>
>>> Also note, the iso earlier had the wrong name rc6 when it's actually
>>> rc7. Forgot to svn up before the build and missed the revision.
>>> Apologies, some of the md5 and links are not quite right so make 
>>> sure to
>>> double check which folder you downloaded from, the build log in the 
>>> home
>>> directory will say rev 4588.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
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