Tails

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2013-10-29 07:01:45

> - 0.20.1: 925.4M
> - 0.21: 934.5M

0.21 has the Debian testing sources added. It probably accounts for some, if not all, of the size increase.

However, it’s correct that we have already noted (like, since a year
or more) that ISO’s built with Vagrant (by anonym, at least) are
noticeably smaller than ISO’s built with libvirt (by intrigeri, at
least).

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2013-11-13 09:10:02

intrigeri wrote:
> However, it’s correct that we have already noted (like, since a year
> or more) that ISO’s built with Vagrant (by anonym, at least) are
> noticeably smaller than ISO’s built with libvirt (by intrigeri, at
> least).

It might be that “my” ISO images have stuff they should not have in /var/lib/apt/lists/. To be investigated.

#3 Updated by winterfairy 2013-11-16 05:26:41

Tails 0.21 has 4 files in “/var/cache/apt/archives/partial” too :)
Only 1 MB however.

/var/lib/apt/lists/* is 127.5 MB uncompressed, which is just above 25 MB compressed on the ISO (and each IUK update, since they always change).

#4 Updated by intrigeri 2014-02-08 10:55:49

live-build 3.x passes config/rootfs/excludes as a parameter to mksquashfs’ -ef (exclude file) option.
But we already have a file passed as -ef in config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/amnesia/build/mksquashfs-excludes.