@Robert,

/lib/firmware no longer exists ?

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:51 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I'm, prepping to make my own "production" image; prior to installing a
> ton of development tools, and figured I'd point a few things out. Most this
> is for Robert when he gets around to worrying about all this, if it all.
> But there is nothing stopping anyone else form using this information.
>
>
>
> *Trim out uneeded cruft:*william@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get install ncdu
> william@beaglebone:~$ cd /
>
> william@beaglebone:/$ sudo ncdu
>
>
>
>
> *. . . And then navigate around in ncdu to find uneeded large files, and
> directories.A 24Megabyte file ?!*22.4MiB [##########]  libicudata.so.52.1
>
> william@beaglebone:/$ sudo apt-get remove libicu52
> . . .
> After this operation, 28.9 MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> william@beaglebone:/$ sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove libicu52
>
> --- /usr/share
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                         /..
>    36.6MiB [##########] /locale
>    15.2MiB [####      ] /doc
>     7.2MiB [#         ] /man
>
> --- /lib
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                         /..
>    68.4MiB [##########] /modules
>
> --- /var/cache
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                         /..
>    40.5MiB [##########] /apt
>
> A lot of cruft in these 3 locations. Much, of it can be removed, but must
> be careful what you remove in /lib/modules. If you do not know what to
> remove, then do not touch anything . . .
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:55 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> *Blah...*
>>>
>>>
>>> *https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/04/msg00012.html
>>> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/04/msg00012.html>*
>>>
>>> *When there is a response - and there isn't always - it's usually "nobody
>>> currently maintains httpredir, sorry".
>>>
>>> So, it appears as if currently nobody has time or the energy to take
>>> care of httpredir.debian.org <http://httpredir.debian.org> properly.*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/04/msg00018.html
>>> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/04/msg00018.html>*
>>>
>>>
>>> *So it was good for a year...*
>>>
>>>
>>> *https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00003.html
>>> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00003.html>*
>>>
>>> *yuck..*
>>>
>>> *Regards,*
>>
>>
>>  Heh, this is why I do not like non standard stuff . . .funny this sort
>> of thing happens very rarely though . . .
>>
>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Robert Nelson <robertcnel...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 2:56 PM, William Hermans <yyrk...@gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So far the image seems good, but perhaps a little large for a console
>>>>> image.
>>>>>
>>>>> william@beaglebone:~$ sudo df -h /
>>>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>>> /dev/mmcblk0p1  1.7G  319M  1.2G  21% /
>>>>>
>>>>> This is with systemd ripped out and sysv in place. So maybe a bit of
>>>>> stuff that is no longer needed.
>>>>>
>>>>> One thing I will complain about though. I do not like all the http
>>>>> redirects in the apt repo's file. Firstly, because I have no idea what 
>>>>> that
>>>>> is an alias for, and secondly, I'd prefer to keep everything stock. At
>>>>> minimum, using redirects is not stock. Regardless where they point to. At
>>>>> least security updates are stock, otherwise I would not be so polite here 
>>>>> ;)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Here is the details:
>>>>
>>>> http://httpredir.debian.org/
>>>>
>>>> based on your ip, it "could" find a faster connection.
>>>>
>>>> For users in Europe it's been a big help..
>>>>
>>>
>>> Blah...
>>>
>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/04/msg00012.html
>>>
>>> When there is a response - and there isn't always - it's usually "nobody
>>> currently maintains httpredir, sorry".
>>>
>>> So, it appears as if currently nobody has time or the energy to take
>>> care of httpredir.debian.org properly.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2016/04/msg00018.html
>>>
>>>
>>> So it was good for a year...
>>>
>>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/05/msg00003.html
>>>
>>> yuck..
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
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