Fedora 9 Preview PPC DVD image is 4759891968 bytes. That's more than the size of a single layer disc, and indeed, OS X is refusing to burn it. I'm not sure why it's a couple hundred megabytes bigger than the Beta iso.
The following 27 packages are in the Beta tree but not the preview tree: 9028 htmlview.noarch 12794 xine-lib-arts.ppc 15289 gnokii-smsd-pgsql.ppc 38322 gnokii-smsd.ppc 40571 swfdec-gtk.ppc 40900 swfdec-mozilla.ppc 65337 scim-qtimm.ppc 68126 scim-qtimm.ppc64 83738 fuse-libs.ppc64 124462 jline.ppc 165384 agg.ppc 196346 vnc-libs.ppc64 470720 gnome-volume-manager.ppc 728455 gnokii.ppc64 749287 nas.ppc64 763116 nas.ppc 1119283 system-config-soundcard.noarch 1153050 fedorainfinity-gdm-theme.noarch 2036953 qt-designer.ppc 2130817 gnash.ppc 2294493 scim-pinyin.ppc 6544653 qt4-x11.ppc 6780709 qt4-devel.ppc 6864140 qt4-devel.ppc64 6917650 qt4-x11.ppc64 10706549 kdeartwork-icons-crystalsvg.ppc 23427982 kernel-kdump.ppc64 These total 70MB. The following 103 packages are in Preview but not Beta: 7398 yum-packagekit.ppc 8643 jlex-javadoc.ppc 16019 xerces-j2-javadoc-apis.ppc 17664 xine-lib-pulseaudio.ppc 17827 jakarta-commons-daemon-javadoc.ppc 19348 ldapjdk-javadoc.ppc 20017 gvfs-fuse.ppc 20612 ksshaskpass.ppc 21204 gnu-getopt-javadoc.ppc 22073 java-1.5.0-gcj-src.ppc 22477 classpathx-jaf-javadoc.ppc 23564 junit-javadoc.ppc 24805 python-sexy.ppc 27769 jakarta-taglibs-standard-javadoc.ppc 28862 libgail-gnome.ppc64 29973 jakarta-commons-launcher-javadoc.ppc 35334 jakarta-commons-fileupload-javadoc.ppc 37952 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.ppc64 40941 jakarta-commons-logging-javadoc.ppc 43268 bluez-utils-alsa.ppc64 45962 libbeagle.ppc 46832 java-1.5.0-gcj-devel.ppc 48997 xml-commons-which-javadoc.ppc 49953 jakarta-commons-pool-javadoc.ppc 51686 jdepend-javadoc.ppc 51990 cryptix-asn1-javadoc.ppc 55073 inotify-tools.ppc64 57016 inotify-tools.ppc 57291 hunspell-gd.noarch 57791 scim-bridge-qt.ppc 59220 regexp-javadoc.ppc 62564 jakarta-commons-validator-javadoc.ppc 63441 lzo.ppc64 65073 xerces-j2-javadoc-xni.ppc 69820 tomcat6-jsp-2.1-api.noarch 71160 puretls-javadoc.ppc 73240 jakarta-commons-el-javadoc.ppc 73492 jakarta-commons-modeler-javadoc.ppc 73555 jakarta-commons-dbcp-javadoc.ppc 75324 avalon-logkit-javadoc.ppc 76598 java_cup-javadoc.ppc 83637 pyxdg.noarch 84795 tomcat6-servlet-2.5-api.noarch 85769 qemu-img.ppc 86453 nas-libs.ppc 86889 avalon-framework-javadoc.ppc 87273 fuse.ppc 88428 nas-libs.ppc64 89269 jline.noarch 101350 xml-commons-resolver-javadoc.ppc 106028 libarchive.ppc64 106535 libarchive.ppc 113535 jakarta-oro-javadoc.ppc 120473 codeina.noarch 126636 qca-ossl.ppc 128813 xerces-j2-javadoc-other.ppc 148858 classpathx-mail-javadoc.ppc 151246 jakarta-commons-beanutils-javadoc.ppc 155274 pulseaudio-utils.ppc64 159741 libvisual.ppc 163858 jakarta-commons-digester-javadoc.ppc 169016 libvisual.ppc64 175878 hunspell-ne.noarch 179071 kdebase3-pim-ioslaves.ppc 184864 log4j-javadoc.ppc 231671 cryptix-javadoc.ppc 267846 mono-addins.ppc 273516 jakarta-commons-lang-javadoc.ppc 283010 antlr-javadoc.ppc 353363 hunspell-fo.noarch 386229 hunspell-bn.noarch 388606 bcel-javadoc.ppc 427390 jakarta-commons-collections-javadoc.ppc 437746 kde-l10n-Kashubian.noarch 446427 kde-l10n-Walloon.noarch 446828 bug-buddy.ppc64 489584 kde-l10n-NorthernSami.noarch 627518 mx4j-javadoc.ppc 632737 inchi.ppc64 730271 xerces-j2-javadoc-impl.ppc 750139 xml-commons-apis-javadoc.ppc 960618 kde-l10n-Esperanto.noarch 1168006 kde-l10n-Macedonian.noarch 1251785 ant-javadoc.ppc 1450403 xalan-j2-javadoc.ppc 1475458 aspell-sk.ppc 1517996 fedorawaves-kdm-theme.noarch 2037407 qt3-designer.ppc 3500922 openbabel.ppc64 5140387 kernel-doc.noarch 6534810 qt-x11.ppc 6918098 qt-x11.ppc64 6938617 xorg-x11-docs.noarch 10706902 crystalsvg-icon-theme.ppc 11342966 oxygen-icon-theme.ppc 11498093 qt3-devel.ppc 11766634 qt3-devel.ppc64 13072913 libgcj-src.ppc 20821901 java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc.ppc 26617232 java-1.6.0-openjdk-src.ppc 27984964 java-1.5.0-gcj-javadoc.ppc 48206877 evolution-help.ppc 84790027 gimp-help.noarch These total 303MB. So, there's your size increase.
Note that the current gimp-help has shrunk by ~40MB since preview was cut. So that's a start.
(In reply to comment #2) > Note that the current gimp-help has shrunk by ~40MB since preview was cut. So > that's a start. Actually, the fact that gimp-help is there at all is wrong. For Beta, we had the following entries in the kickstart file: -gimp-help -evolution-help -java-1.6.0-openjdk-src -xorg-x11-docs -kernel-doc -java-1.5.0-gcj-src -java-1.5.0-gcj-devel -libgcj-src -*javadoc* That should have carried over to Preview, RC, and Final.
With some recent testing, I had to add all those back except for the evolution-help, which I'd like to leave on the media if possible. Will commit to pungi git, won't have time for an upstream release today and maybe for a few days due to travel.
Fedora-9-ppc-DVD.iso 2008-May-06 18:27:31 4.1G (from a RC tree)