Re: [T(A)ILS-dev] Image size issues

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Autor: alan
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Para: tails-dev
Asunto: Re: [T(A)ILS-dev] Image size issues

> anonym wrote (08 Jan 2011 15:36:03 GMT) :
> > 08/01/11 16:29, intrigeri:
> >>> * /var/lib/lists reduced massively, from 60 MB to just 16 MB (lots of
> >>> redundancy in there apparently). This makes me question a bit if it's
> >>> worth the additional hassle of having to apt-get update.
>
> > I meant: since /var/lib/lists can be compressed pretty efficiently, only
> > adding <16 MB to the image, and the lack of it introduces a lot of
> > headache by having to apt-get update whenever we want to install
> > something, perhaps it's not worth removing it?


It's worth removing it: the time at which the lists were downloaded is
recorded and APT ensure it was not too far in the past to prevent replay
attacks. So you will always have to do an "apt-get update" if the image
was created the day before.



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