On Mon, 2016-02-22 at 11:26 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Courtney Pacheco (cpacheco@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I've spent some time trying to minimize the footprint of the Fedora > > docker > > base image. Overall, I managed to reduce its size by 39.9%. > > > > A summary of the work I did can be found here: > > https://gist.github.com/iamcourtney/1a4af7c4289014f57080 > > > > If you're interested, you can find a more detailed version of the > > above work > > here: https://gist.github.com/iamcourtney/b8709ed897b7ecc9ac0f > May be a dumb question... > > If we're excluding DNF, RPM, etc. for a slimmer base image during > runtime, > how are we describing the best practices for build? Is the intention > that > you should always be pulling in a separate tool container to assist > with > the build process? > > Bill > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject. > org > > I have no problem removing dnf, but removing rpm is going to far. For now we still need rpm for looking at the contents of a container. While external rpm would probably work, I don't think we are redy for this, nor is the benefit enough. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
