On Sun, 2019-08-04 at 16:18 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > 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. I think such CI runs would be very useful even for other "classical" deliverables. If the live image/netinst image/DVD image/installation initrd/etc. suddenly grows in size by say 20+ %, this is something that should trigger warnings & should be investigated. > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
