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keep-apt waste space with Translation-* files

Bug #956894 reported by Paolo Sammicheli
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Bug Description

We tried building the Italian CD with the keep-apt directive. We've found that as is there's a waste of more than 50MB, that makes the CD ovesizing 700MB.

We found that two kind of files related to universe and Translation-en are not useful for fixing bug #942180. Se we can delete it and save all this space.

Attaching a patch with a proposed change.

Thanks in advance

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubuntu-defaults-builder 0.26 [modified: usr/bin/ubuntu-defaults-image]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic-pae 3.2.9
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Mar 16 12:59:22 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha i386 (20120201)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=screen
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-defaults-builder
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-13 (2 days ago)

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Paolo Sammicheli (xdatap1) wrote :
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: keep-apt waste space with universe and Translation-en files

Selectively removing *universe* would be besides the point, though. If you use --components universe, you probably have some universe packages installed, and thus apt should work on them just as well. If you don't build with --components universe, then the ISO won't have the indexes in the first place.

I'm ok with removing the package descriptions, i. e. removing *Translations*. I committed this bit. If you want to selectively drop per-comonent apt lists, I suggest we add a new option which takes an argument list, like "--keep-apt-components=main,restricted"?

summary: - keep-apt waste space with universe and Translation-en files
+ keep-apt waste space with Translation-* files
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Committed the removal of all translation files and dedicating this bug to that.

Thank you!

Changed in ubuntu-defaults-builder (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-defaults-builder - 0.27

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ubuntu-defaults-builder (0.27) precise; urgency=low

  * test/make-example: Call the package "defaults-builder-test", with the
    recent "restrict Ubuntu customizations" change we can't call the package
    "ubuntu-defaults-test" any more. (LP: #957044)
  * bin/ubuntu-defaults-image: With --keep-apt, remove the translations. They
    take a lot of space, and most apt operations will work fine without them.
    (LP: #956894)
  * bin/dh_ubuntu_defaults: Update distribution.ini path to where Firefox puts
    the file these days. (LP: #956899)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:04:14 +0100

Changed in ubuntu-defaults-builder (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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