Re: [atomic-devel] Base image sizes

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2015-05-15 at 16:41 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 01:11 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 
> > In seriousness, this has crept up quite a lot since the initial
> > versions we'd worked on a while ago, and has some huge room for
> > improvement. I see it includes dracut and grub2, 
> 
> I think this an Anaconda regression.  Using `bootloader --location=none`
> and `%packages --nocore` was supposed to avoid installing a bootloader,
> but we're ending up with one again.
> 
> If you look at /var/log/anaconda/anaconda.log in the image (yes,
> log files are in the image by default), you'll see:
> 
> 18:28:07,936 INFO anaconda: bootloader GRUB2 on X86 platform

Right, I noticed grub2 in the images this morning.  Removing that (grub2
plus grub2-tools) frees up over 50MB; over 70MB once you remove deps
that only grub was using.

> I'll file a bug with Anaconda.

Thanks, sounds like this is a big win.

--Stephen