On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 11:09 AM Dridi Boukelmoune <dridi.boukelmoune@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I'm not sure whether the minimization effort is still going on but I > wanted to report the pitfalls I ran into moving from the fedora Docker > container to fedora-minimal. > > For starters I was surprised by the absence of DNF and I had to find > by myself, I don't remember how, that MicroDNF was present instead. > So my first bit of feedback concerns the container registry. It looks a > bit... out of shape? > > I get an empty page [1] when I click on the fedora-minimal container > and as of today it is by far not the only blank page. I had to keep > opening more until I found one [2] with contents. Ironically a docker > container for another container runtime... > > Even when there is content, it doesn't tell much. This is where I > would hope to get the information about MicroDNF. > > The other and more significant pitfall I ran into was the lack of a > timezone database. This manifests either as missing tz information > or reports of a corrupted tz database, depending on the application > I'm trying to run. Installing tzdata was a no-op, it turns out to be > installed by default but some of its contents are removed post > installation. Again, something trivial to fix, but it should be > documented on the registry: > > microdnf reinstall tzdata There's a bug about this to split out the UTC tzdata into a minimal tzdata so terrible hacks aren't needed to slim things down. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1722233 > By comparison dockerhub, from which I used to pull fedora images > before moving to fedora-minimal has a nice landing page [3] and > maybe it's also failing to document pitfalls but so far the base image > never surprised me. Anything that's particularly stripped back will always be a compromise of size vs functionality, if the stacked image did what you already needed why change? _______________________________________________ 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
