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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Small rant: installer environment size
From:       Florian Weimer <fweimer () redhat ! com>
Date:       2023-02-14 17:40:05
Message-ID: 875yc49mdm.fsf () oldenburg ! str ! redhat ! com
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* Adam Williamson:

> On Tue, 2023-02-14 at 09:40 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Adam Williamson:
>> 
>> > On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 07:57 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> > > * Adam Williamson:
>> > > 
>> > > > 1. /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive , from glibc-all-langpacks - this is
>> > > > 224M uncompressed. A quick test just compressing the file with xz on my
>> > > > system shows it compresses to around 11M, though, so that's probably
>> > > > all it adds up to after compression (the image is an xz-compressed
>> > > > squashfs)
>> > > 
>> > > Isn't the compression block-based?  I think it would be interesting to
>> > > measure the image size with the file removed.
>> > 
>> > I'll try it tomorrow, it's not too hard.
>> 
>> Have you posted the outcome of the experiment somewhere?
>
> Sorry, after we established I was wrong about the image being loaded
> into memory, this became less important so I don't think I went ahead
> with it. If you're still interested I can try and find a minute to do
> it this week, once we have Rawhide and F38 calmed down after
> branching...

I'm still curious about the impact of glibc-all-langpacks on
download/image size.

Thanks,
Florian
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