removing languages

[tncook]

Has anyone tried stripping out the extra language files as part of the InstaDMG process? I was thinking of adding a line to the instadmg.bash script instead of making a package to run it.

[walt]

If you are talking about the OS installed languages you can do this with an InstallerChoices.xml file inside of your /InstaDMG/InstallerFiles/BaseOS/ folder.

e.g. to only install the OS without languages or printers etc. your xml file would look like this:

[code]

PrinterDriversGroup
AdditionalFonts
LanguageTranslations
X11

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[tncook]

Nope, thats not what I am talking about. Even when installing the OS in one language, all the applications still get all the translations. Think Monolingual or delocalizer.

[code]find -x “$dir” \! \( -path ‘dev*’ \) -and \( -not -path “*English.lproj” -and -not -path “*en.lproj” -and -not -path “*dobe*” \) -and \( -path ‘*.lproj’ \) -exec rm -R \{\} \;[/code]

Running it saves me about 2.5Gb on my images. I have it ignore Adobe stuff because it can get flaky without it, the CS4 suite only has about 150mb of language stuff anyway.

[tncook]

I dropped it into the instadmg.bash and it worked like a champ. I added it to the start of the clean up section. The output image went from 10.08GB to 9.29GB

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log “delocalizing” section
find -x “$CURRENT_IMAGE_MOUNT” \! \( -path ‘dev*’ \) -and \( -not -path “*English.lproj” -and -not -path “*en.lproj” -and -not -path “*obe*” \) -and \( -path ‘*.lproj’ \) -exec rm -R \{\} \;
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