[install-discuss] List of miniroot files?

[Roland Mainz]

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> >On 8/29/07, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote:
> >> William Pursell wrote:
> >> > Where can I find the list of files which are copied to the miniroot image?
> >> >
> >>
> >> There isn't a simple list.  Presently, a set of packages are added, and
> >> then a bunch of unused portions of the resulting file system are
> >> removed.  Why do you ask?
> >
> >I want to add ksh93 and make /bin/sh a link to it. Should save some
> >disk space, memory and make miniroot faster
> 
> ksh93 is a *lot* bigger than /bin/sh.

... but bigger doesn't always mean "slower" (see my other email in this
thread) ...

> Also, I seriously doubt that you would notice any speed difference on
> install.

Right (on the other side other things (like better i18n support, math
and the abilty to replace awk/sed/etc. with shell builtin constructs)
and more compact scripts may be advantages (which can be even further
reduced in size using "shcomp") ... but I'm not sure whether this
applies to the miniroot situation where the main limit is available disk
space (erm... or not ? I never looked at how the miniroot stuff really
works... ;-( )) ...

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Bye,
Roland

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