Description of problem: An install DVD composed via pungi+lorax has an images/install.img that is 37MB larger than the same file composed via pungi+buildinstall. The differences I found are (when restricted to shallow depth, more or less): extra directory bin/, containing only lowntfs-3g Missing file etc/joe missing file etc/pcmcia extra in etc/: adjtime aliases alternatives avahi bash_completion.d bashrc blkid chkconfig.d ConsoleKit cron.d cron.daily cron.hourly cron.monthly cron.weekly csh.cshrc csh.login default depmod.d dhcp DIR_COLORS DIR_COLORS.256color DIR_COLORS.lightbgcolor dnsmasq.conf dnsmasq.d dracut.conf.d environment ethers exports favicon.png filesystems firmware gai.conf gcrypt gnupg GREP_COLORS group- gshadow- gssapi_mech.conf gtk-3.0 hal host.conf hosts.allow hosts.deny init inittab inputrc iproute2 iscsi krb5.conf ld.so.conf.d libaudit.conf libsmbios localtime logrotate.d lvm motd mtools.conf multipath networks nfsmount.conf ntp openldap opt passwd- plymouth pm popt.d ppp printcap profile profile.d pulse rc rc.local rc.sysinit rpc rpm rsyslog.conf rwtab rwtab.d samba sasl2 securetty sestatus.conf setuptool.d sgml shadow shadow- ssh ssl statetab statetab.d sysctl.conf systemd terminfo virc wgetrc X11 xdg xinetd.d xml yum.conf extra in lib/: kbd security systemd terminfo upstart missing from lib64/: libbz2.so.1.0.4 libpci.so.3.1.6 libsysfs.so.2 libsysfs.so.2.0.1 extra in lib64/: device-mapper libanl-2.12.90.so libanl.so.1 libauparse.so.0 libauparse.so.0.0.0 libBrokenLocale-2.12.90.so libBrokenLocale.so.1 libbz2.so.1.0.6 libcidn-2.12.90.so libcidn.so.1 libdmraid-events-isw.so libdmraid-events-isw.so.1 libdmraid-events-isw.so.1.0.0.rc16 libdmraid.so libgssrpc.so.4 libgssrpc.so.4.1 libhandle.so.1 libhandle.so.1.0.3 libnss_compat-2.12.90.so libnss_compat.so.2 libnss_hesiod-2.12.90.so libnss_hesiod.so.2 libnss_nis-2.12.90.so libnss_nisplus-2.12.90.so libnss_nisplus.so.2 libnss_nis.so.2 libpamc.so.0 libpamc.so.0.82.1 libpci.so.3.1.7 libSegFault.so libthread_db-1.0.so libthread_db.so.1 rtkaio tls xtables missing from usr/bin/: emacs firstaidkit firstaidkit-qs ftp gtk-query-immodules-3.0-64 gtk-update-icon-cache-3.0 jmacs joe jpico list-harddrives losetup mt nano nslookup ntfscat ntfscluster ntfscmp ntfsdecrypt ntfsdump_logfile ntfsfix ntfsinfo ntfsls ntfsmftalloc ntfsmove ntfstruncate ntfswipe pico raidstart raidstop rcp restart-anaconda rlogin rsh rsync termidx volume_key extra in usr/bin/: [ addftinfo amuFormat.sh apropos awk base64 bashbug-64 bugzilla bzcmp bzdiff bzgrep bzip2recover bzless bzmore cal canberra-gtk-play captoinfo catchsegv catman chcon chfn chrt chsh ck-history ck-launch-session ck-list-sessions cksum col colcrt colrm column comm createrepo csplit cvt dbus-binding-tool dbus-cleanup-sockets dbus-monitor dbus-send ddate deallocvt dir dircolors dirname dnsdomainname domainname dumpkeys eqn eqn2graph ex expand factor fallocate fc-cache fc-cat fc-list fc-match fc-query fc-scan fgconsole findmnt flock floppy fmt fold free gconf-merge-tree gconftool-2 gdbus gdiffmk gencat getconf getent gethostip getkeycodes getopt gindxbib gio-querymodules-64 glib-compile-schemas glookbib gneqn gnome-keyring gnome-keyring-daemon gnroff gpg-error grap2graph grn grodvi grolbp grolj4 grops grotty groups gsettings gsettings-data-convert gsoelim gtar gtf gtroff gzexe hexdump hostid hpftodit i386 iceauth id idn igawk indxbib infocmp infotocap install ionice ipcmk ipcrm ipcs isohybrid isosize join kbd_mode kbdrate ksflatten ksvalidator ksverdiff last lastb lchfn lchsh ldd lessecho lesskey lesspipe.sh lexgrog link linux32 linux64 liveinst lkbib loadunimap locale localedef logname look lookbib lowntfs-3g lscpu lua luac lz man mandb manpath mapscrn mcat mcheck mclasserase mcomp mcookie memdiskfind mergerepo mesg metacity-message mkfifo mkhybrid mkisofs mkmanifest modifyrepo mountpoint mtoolstest mxtar namei neqn netstat nice nisdomainname nl nm-applet nmcli nm-online nm-tool nohup notify-send nproc ntfs-3g.probe ntfs-3g.secaudit ntfs-3g.usermap ntfsmount od oldfind openssl paste pathchk pcregrep pcretest pdfroff peekfd pfbtops pgawk pgrep pic pic2graph ping6 pinky pkaction pkcheck pkexec pkill pmap post-grohtml pr preconv pre-grohtml printenv printf prtstat psfaddtable psfgettable psfstriptable psfxtable pstree pstree.x11 ptx pwdx pydoc pygtk-demo python2 refer rename renice report reset resizecons rev rpcgen rpm2cpio rpmdb rpmquery rpmsign rpmverify runcon rvi rview script scriptreplay secon semodule_deps semodule_expand semodule_link semodule_package seq sessreg setarch setfont setkeycodes setleds setmetamode setsid setterm sha224sum sha256sum sha384sum sha512sum showconsolefont showkey showrgb shuf skill slabtop slogin snice soelim sprof sqlite3 ssh-add ssh-agent ssh-copy-id ssh-keyscan stat stdbuf stty su sum synclient syndaemon system-config-date system-config-keyboard tabs tailf taskset tbl test tfmtodit tgz tic timeout tload toe tput tr tracepath tracepath6 troff truncate tset tsort tty tzselect ul unexpand unicode_start unicode_stop unlink unshare update-gio-modules update-gtk-immodules uptime urlgrabber users usleep utmpdump uuidgen uz vdir view vmmouse_detect vmstat vncserver w wall watch whatis whereis who whoami write X x0vncserver x86_64 xgamma xhost xmlcatalog xmllint xmlwf xmodmap xrdb xrefresh xset xsetmode xsetpointer xsetroot xsetwacom xstdcmap yes ypdomainname yum zcmp zdiff zegrep zfgrep zforce zgrep zless zmore znew and after that I got tired. There are also major differences in usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ usr/lib64/ usr/sbin/ usr/share/{fonts,icons,locale,terminfo,themes}/ usr/share/X11/fonts Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-14.17.4 lorax tip as of 2010-08-12 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. compose install DVD of Fedora 14 Beta using pungi+lorax versus pungi+buildinstall 2. 3. Actual results: # ls -l /mnt/beta/images/install.img /mnt/lorax/images/install.img -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 157347840 Sep 20 21:44 /mnt/beta/images/install.img -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 194723840 Sep 23 17:16 /mnt/lorax/images/install.img which is a 24% increase for lorax. Expected results: At most a few percent increase in size. Additional info:
lorax inverts our current logic by blacklisting things instead of whitelisting things. This is due to our years of experience at getting burned by not including required things no one told us about, files changing names or locations, and the like. It's more worth focusing on what large things we can block entirely than on what the specific file-by-file differences are.
We use a blacklist when creating images. So there may be some unnecessary files left in the images, but they are mostly small, and do not increase the image size so much, as opposed to us having to maintain a very long list of files to remove from the install tree.