Karen Tung wrote:
> Jack Schwartz wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> With the latest IPS changes, it appears that the slim CD's root
>> filesystem needs an additional ~96 Mb. "pkg install" needs the space
>> when installing additional packages. I believe this is due to the
>> push for 12409 and 12340.
>>
>> The 96 Mb breaks down to ~46Mb needed to read the /var/pkg/state/...
>> tree into memory so it is changeable, and another ~50Mb* used to copy
>> it as part of the pkg install operation. The slim CD manifest needs
>> the following changes:
>> - specify the /var/pkg/state tree as bootroot-resident
>> ("ramdisk-resident")
>> - specify an additional 50Mb space via
>> img_params/output_image/boot_archive/size_pad_mb
> If you specify /var/pkg/state in the "boot_archive_contents" list. All
> the files that need to
> be included should be brought in automatically, and the
> boot_archive_archive.py finalizer script
> should dynamically calculate the needed space. Why do you need to
> specify an additional 50mb space
> in size_pad_mb?
>
> Of course we still have the problem of the boot_archive increasing so
> much in size as a result
> of including /var/pkg/state.
Is the boot archive not compressed?
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Shawn Walker
