Public bug reported:
[Impact]
* Ability to generate minimized images is a new feature of
livecd-rootfs. Minimized images have smaller footprint on disk, may
not use initramfs to boot and may have smaller RAM footprint as well.
* Using minimal images can save bandwidth and system resources and we
would like to make those improvements available for Xenial users.
[Test Case]
* A new autopkgtest (minimized) was added to test building minimized
images. The test logs show the generated image sizes for ubuntu-cpc
images with and without minimization and the minimized images have
to be smaller.
[Regression Potential]
* The changes should not affect images which are not minimized but the
minimized images may not boot on some systems. For example the Linux
kernel does not boot in a Vagrant VM without initramfs, but the
minimized Vagrant image does not include initramfs.
* In case the effect of changes are not limited to the minimized image
they may make packages missing from regular images and/or may make the
regular images unbootable.
[Other Info]
* The current patch works around the 'minimized' autopkgtest failure on
ppc64el which affects Artful and can be observed when the Linux kernel
package does not depend on initramfs-tools (LP: #1700972) thus the
minimized images don't include initramfs support.
** Affects: livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- [SRU] Release minimized image related changes and other fixes to Xenial
+ [SRU] Release minimized image related changes to Xenial
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[SRU] Release minimized image related changes to Xenial
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