Jan: Thanks for following up on this. I think we should leave the SUNWpkgcmds alone. In the future, if we have the capability to allow people to run custom finish scripts, I believe that pkgadd command will be very handy do this.
If you have AI image to test, let me know and I will be happy to try them. jan damborsky wrote: > Hi Mary, > > > mary ding wrote: >> Dave and Jan: >> >> >> I helped Jan to test out the fix with the reduced AI image and it works. >> >> 1. However, I do notice that there are man pages in the microroot and >> they do >> occupy >> some spaces. The man command is not even available in the >> microroot, can these man packages be removed in the AI microroot: > > Based on later Karen's comment, I assume you mean > that man pages are present in AI image/environment - > I have verified that microroot itself doesn't contain > directories you mention below. > > I have taken a closer look at what is present in AI image > with respect to man pages and it seems that we can't > get easily get rid of them at this moment. > > The reason is that they are spread across packages > which deliver pieces we need in AI image. > > The good example might be SUNWopenssl package. > We utilize only couple of libraries from it but > it also delivers bunch of man pages and header > files and the final size of that package is more > than 10MB. > > I think that generic solution for this problem would > be if we could apply filtering when installing > IPS package into DC proto area - taking advantage > of so called 'facets' would be the solution - please > take a look at following thread, it gives the good > introduction about facets/variants and how we could > take advantage of them once they are implemented: > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkg-discuss/2008-December/009092.html > > That said, I agree with you that there still might > be candidates in AI image which are not needed > and can be removed as a whole. > > I have created sorted list of packages we have > in AI Distro Constructor manifest after Dave's > reduction (list is attached). > > After taking a quick look, I can think at least > following packages could be removed (but I have to > verify): > > 10.66 MB SUNWsfinf GNU and open source info pages > 6.33 MB SUNWgccruntime GCC Runtime libraries > 4.54 MB SUNWgnu-coreutils coreutils - GNU core utilities > 1.85 MB SUNWpkgcmds SVr4 packaging commands > 1.59 MB SUNWgnutls GNU transport layer security library > 1.36 MB SUNWpcre Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions > 794.47 kB SUNWpython-cherrypy CherryPy > > Also, I plan to take a look at populated DC AI proto area, > if there are some interesting packages installed which are > not listed in AI manifest, but are pulled into the image > in order to fulfill dependencies. > >> >> root at opensolaris:/usr# more /tmp/man >> ./gnu/share/man >> ./has/man >> ./sfw/man >> ./sfw/share/man >> ./share/man >> root at opensolaris:/usr# du -skh /usr/gnu/share/man >> 235K /usr/gnu/share/man >> root at opensolaris:/usr# du -skh /usr/has/man >> 108K /usr/has/man >> root at opensolaris:/usr# du -skh /usr/sfw/man >> 512 /usr/sfw/man >> root at opensolaris:/usr# du -skh /usr/sfw/share/man >> 2.8M /usr/sfw/share/man >> root at opensolaris:/usr# du -skh /usr/share/man >> 6.1M /usr/share/man >> root at opensolaris:/usr# >> >> >> >> 2. For Live CD, the man pages also occupy some space and should they >> be removed also ??? In fact, just /usr/share/man alone had already >> occupy 56 MB and this will definitely help the low memory 512 MB >> system doing livecd install. > > > As far as LiveCD case is concerned, I think man pages > are mandatory there, since LiveCD represent working > Solaris environment and we need to provide potential > new user with as much help/docummentation/man pages > as possible in order to simplify the Solaris adoption. > > Thank you, > Jan > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
