Bug 499152 – suggestion: unmerge sys-devel/gcc in installcd-stage2-minimal.spec for minimal iso, allowing preserve-libs to keep required runtime libs

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Ben Kohler 2014-01-24 18:45:00 UTC]

Old livecd specs used to unmerge gcc [1], but this was changed when adding software speech to the install cds [2].  Since portage now has preserve-libs default-on, that should ensure that any consumers of gcc libs like libstdc++ keep working.

In my preliminary tests, I find no breakage and this unmerge of gcc reduces the size of the minimal iso by around 32MB.

[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54213#c1
[2] http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/releng.git;a=commit;h=54ba358c8f3d7453be9da6da1964cf7bd273a53b

[Comment 1 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2014-03-16 23:49:52 UTC]

I've added the support to catalyst to do this[1][2]. I've also took care of the config in skimmer to enable the use of preserve-libs[3].
So perhaps it's time I apply the change to the admin-cd[4] to the install-cd as well.

 [1] - http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/catalyst.git;a=commitdiff;h=462348d88b3a5fa783f322c64131025581ecc220
 [2] - http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/catalyst.git;a=commitdiff;h=f6ad384914a00099eea2a0f66232728c479ec628
 [3] - http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/releng.git;a=commitdiff;h=70bc517741e1978ddf49f4e8f7794c666356f047
 [4] - http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/releng.git;a=commit;f=releases/weekly/specs/amd64/hardened/admincd-stage2.spec;h=7ee03e962861126ed7e1a8ff97aadc8c6239c3f4

[Comment 2 Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto (RETIRED) 2014-06-22 11:59:56 UTC]

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/releng.git;a=commit;h=0316ab4489d50cc4ef2862adf7ef859872c3410e

[Comment 3 Ben Kohler 2014-08-01 14:31:36 UTC]

This change is in several of the latest isos and looks good, thanks, closing