[gentoo-catalyst] Determining Directories / Files to get rid of

[gentoo-catalyst] Determining Directories / Files to get rid of

[derek tracy]

I just wanted to know how everybody goes through the process of
determining what files / directories are needed for the livecd to
function properly.

So far I have been doing the good ol' faithful get it working then
remove some stuff and rebuild to see if anything broke.  This takes
forever and a day.  Does anyone have any pointers on how to make the
resulting iso smaller without going through this pain-staking process?

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Determining Directories / Files to get rid of

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:43 -0400, derek tracy wrote:
> I just wanted to know how everybody goes through the process of
> determining what files / directories are needed for the livecd to
> function properly.
> 
> So far I have been doing the good ol' faithful get it working then
> remove some stuff and rebuild to see if anything broke.  This takes
> forever and a day.  Does anyone have any pointers on how to make the
> resulting iso smaller without going through this pain-staking process?

That's pretty much what I did when creating the very long list from the
livecd-stage2 spec files used to build 2004.3 and 2005.0 releases.  I
wish I had a better method, but I don't.

If anyone comes up with one, I'd love to hear about it.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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