Den 2025-11-01 kl. 17:19, skrev Sulev-Madis Silber:
On November 1, 2025 4:06:48 PM GMT+02:00, Dennis Clarke<[email protected]>
wrote:
Why is the DVD image so large? Can something/anything be trimmed out?
it's kind of funny
because cperciva was just asked to fill up the apparant "empty" wasted space
seen in beta3 dvd
which he did! even overachieved the task slightly, apparently?
so in order to not generate full war we would need to either cut back, remove
or abadon actual dvd size in some images
or maybe make image remotely or locally customizable
or provide separate images (tiny, medium, huge) which are just offline repos
or finally start shipping images with various de's which users ask but which
can't be easily done as disks don't self-expand. and then you need to archive
it all too
or something else
p.s.: btw, i was not able to install ports from b3 dvd for some reason, i
didn't check why and completed the test setup from remote
HI
Yes I started this .....
I notices that B2 did not include the DVD: ./packages/repo directory and
contents.
this was fixed in B3. but B3 was Void of KDE packages. B4 now have KDE
packages but is 4.8 GB ,
I propose to abandon DVD 4.7 GB format and that future DVD-ISO packages
use DVD-DL 8.5 GB discs.
Regards
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Lars Tunkrans
Oracle SPARC/Solaris System Administrator
Fujitsu M12 SPARC Specilaist
