[Sugar-devel] Sugar-devel Digest, Vol 58, Issue 47

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Jerry

That sounds promising. The 10GB was required to create the initial 
repositories (essentially download 2 Fedora DVDs). It sounds like you
have created a 'minimum' repository needed to do the build.

One approach we used in Nepal, server-side, was to take the image, 
unsquash, make the changes to the filesystem, and then squash again into 
a modified image.

Tony


On 08/24/2013 09:50 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
>> I had the experience in Rwanda of attempting to do a local OS build. The
>> >first step was to download about 10GB of repository. Not going to happen
>> >in the internet environment there. A deployment who wants to rebuild
>> >must make sure that it has the repositories available on hard drives
>> >capable of doing the build offline.
>> >
> Maybe I can help you out with that, I can't see how you need 10GB of
> data:
>
> du -c -s -h build/cache/imgcreate/
> 2.7G	build/cache/imgcreate/
> 2.7G	total
>
> plus activities
>
> That is what olpc-os-builder has cached, from multiple runs with
> fedora_updates' yum repo turned on grabbing the latest rpms when
> available. Once the cache is populated you can use olpc-os-builder
> offline, this might be a new feature since you tried last.
>
> Jerry
>