On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 2:52 AM, Felix Endres wrote: > Hi Ken, > > installed diamondback today via apt-get install ros-diamondback-all and > noticed that it takes a lot of disk space. Examining the package cache > I found that the new knowrob package had 1.2 Gig as .deb and 2.1G when > installed, most of it in the subfolder 3rdparty. Thanks for the report. As Moritz's response notes, this is generally a stack-specific issue and best addressed with the maintainer. I would *strongly* advise against ever installing ros-diamondback-all. You are bringing in a bunch of stacks, both stable and experimental, and there may be unintended side-effects as they will also bring in thirdparty debs. Your apache server might get changed, etc... I would recommend staying with the advised entry points (e.g. desktop, desktop-full) and adding stacks from there. 'all' is only meant to be used as a backdoor for other purposes. As a side node: the diamondback debs are ~50% smaller than cturtle and, if you use the advised entry-points, your install will be much smaller as they pull in far fewer stacks than before. We are now also doing a better job with incremental updates, so install updates should be much smaller. > There seem to be two issues that can be easily addressed: > - The package contains .svn folders in the lower levels of the fs-tree > - it contains identical data both compressed and uncompressed > > Removing all .zip and .svn/ freed only about ~400M but is a quick > improvement. > Maybe one could remove the uncompressed data instead of the zip-files > but I have no insight here. > > Maybe it's a worthwhile idea to generally exclude */.svn/* during the > packaging? We exclude the .svn directories in the creation of the source tarball for a stack, but this doesn't apply to any subversion resources that a stack's build may access. We've recently added a prohibition on using SVN checkouts during a build in released stacks, so this has the unintended side-effect of accomplishing what you propose above. thanks, Ken > > Regards, > Felix > > > Am 07.02.2011 19:57, schrieb Ken Conley: >> http://www.ros.org/news/2011/02/ros-diamondback-beta-2-release.html >> >> Thanks everyone for the helpful reports.  We've pushed a lot of stack >> updates and are getting closer to our release candidate.  We >> appreciate your continued help with integration, including the updates >> to the installation instructions on the various Linux distributions. >> >> FYI: Here are some remaining OS X integration tickets based on >> Nicholas Butko's reports, patches welcome: >> >> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4764 >> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4765 >> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/ticket/4766 >> >> We still have some fixes that have not been released yet, but will be >> included in the next update. >> >>   - Ken >> _______________________________________________ >> ros-users mailing list >> ros-users@code.ros.org >> https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users >