Hi. Re shrinking images :
Jan Niggemann <[email protected]> writes: > Hi list, > > following James Brombergers proposal > (https://lists.debian.org/debian-cloud/2015/04/msg00011.html), I'm > planning to create official debian boxes and upload them to atlas > (formerly vagrantcloud). > > My planning is roughly the following: > - shrink boxes (eg. remove unused locales, ...) > The box file is 181MB and located here: > http://files.hz6.de/debian-wheezy-i386-150417.box > What's the bonus re image size of the 01_nodoc (which size, without it) ? > image_commands: > commands: [ ["cp", "/root/images/01_nodoc", > "{root}/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/"] ] > > The 01_nodoc file is my first shot at further reducing the box size: > path-exclude /usr/share/doc/* > # we need to keep copyright files for legal reasons > path-include /usr/share/doc/*/copyright > path-exclude /usr/share/man/* > path-exclude /usr/share/groff/* > path-exclude /usr/share/info/* > # lintian stuff is small, but really unnecessary > path-exclude /usr/share/lintian/* > path-exclude /usr/share/linda/* > # lang > path-exclude /usr/share/locale/* > path-include /usr/share/locale/en* > path-exclude /usr/share/i18n/locale/* > path-include /usr/share/i18n/locale/en* > I'm not sure this is something an official image should do. Personally, I think official images should be quite similar to a normal debootstrap-like installation. Having documentation is essential IMHO. Further optimization should be made only depending on each context, but having a manifest/documentation which provides examples would be great. In any case, ideally, a way to re-create all the missing bits should be provided, i.e. reinstalling locales, docs, etc. ... but I'm not sure this is feasable ? Maybe a middle ground would be to provide different flavours : headless, GUI, web server, etc. Aligning to the task meta-packages could be an option. I haven't researched the topic much, though, but hope this makes sense. Best regards, -- Olivier BERGER http://www-public.telecom-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 2048R/5819D7E8 Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
