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archbaby

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[SOLVED] releng vs baseline — Archiso

"releng is used to create the official monthly installation ISO. It can be used as a starting point for creating a customized ISO image.

baseline is a minimalistic configuration, that includes only the bare minimum packages required to boot the live environment from the medium."

— ArchWiki/Archiso

> Could someone please explain me the difference between releng and baseline in depth?

> Which one should I choose to get the archiso in the smallest size possible?

Thank you!

Last edited by archbaby (2022-09-26 10:25:37)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] releng vs baseline — Archiso

The description seems fairly clear to me. releng contains all the additional tooling that isn't strictly necessary but useful to have on a live disk (like smartmontools or so to check disk health and other helpful utlities), baseline the realistic minimum to boot something. That will also likely not be "smallest size possible" but smallest size feasible to contain an Arch system. This is something you can fairly easily verify by actually comparing the packages the two of them install. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … er/configs

Last edited by V1del (2022-09-13 07:51:47)

archbaby

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Re: [SOLVED] releng vs baseline — Archiso

Thanks so much for the reply, V1del.