[...] > > It does help but there are still things I don't understand. The size of our > ISO built with this hack has dropped from about 560MB to about 495MB. There > is still variations building from a full debian mirror I get an 508MB ISO . > Building from a partial mirror the ISO drops to 497MB. This partial mirror > is a proper subset of the full-mirror containing every package pulled from > the full mirror during an ISO build and nothing else. > > I find this behavior puzzling. It seems to me that the ISOs should be > identical. I haven't yet had time to identify specific differences in the > package contents.
I guess this should be the key to diagnosing the problem. It seems to me that install_packages refrains from installing some of the packages into the mirror due to missing dependencies or the like. Weird. Best, Michael
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