Re: Join the new Minimization Team

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>> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 20:34, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
>> <zbyszek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 10:25:55AM +0200, Adam Samalik wrote:
>> > > I've already done some experiments with that. I used multi-stage builds
>> > > with podman, but it's the same in principle. And yes, the sizes are
>> > > smaller. What was interesting though that some additional packages (ones
>> > > that wouldn't appear in the images using the Fedora base image) has been
>> > > dragged in as dependencies. Some of them are even related to hardware. (See
>> > > the report [1] and the github repo [2].)
>> >
>> > It'd be nice to rebase this to F30 or even F31. F29 is not interesting
>> > anymore.
>> >
>> > A lot of the stuff in those images seems completely unnecessary:
>> > device-mapper, device-mapper-libs, dracut, cpio, glibc-all-langpacks,
>> > grubby, systemd-bootchart, systemd-udev.
>> >
>> > > So that might be one area to focus on — to make sure that these "from
>> > > scratch" installations don't drag unnecessary stuff.
>> >
>> > Yep, that sounds like a good start. I suspect that F30 might be already
>> > better in this regard.
>>
>> Yes quite a bit has happened on the base image since F29, we have
>> removed quite a few things and trimmed down the latest rawhide to
>> 208MB. I am sure that can still be improved and I welcome any help on
>> that :-).
>
>
> I've regenerated it for f30 and f31: https://asamalik.fedorapeople.org/container-randomness/report.html
>
> I see the fedora:f31 image is 195 MB, woot!

Is there a plan to add some form of CI to monitor this? It would make
it easy to monitor ups/downs over time and pick up mistakes that bloat
deps by accident.
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