Re: [atomic-devel] Base image sizes

[Tim St Clair <tstclair redhat com>]

Better question: 

"How/Where can I open bug(s) on images and follow them through to completion" 

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Cheers,
Tim

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tim St Clair" <tstclair redhat com>
> To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>
> Cc: "Stephen Watt" <swatt redhat com>, "Brad Childs" <bdc redhat com>, atomic-devel projectatomic io
> Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 10:22:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] Base image sizes
> 
> Could folks cc the bugs to the list so we can track.
> 
> Ideally we would like to leverage our images in upstream k8s e2e tests and
> examples.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tim
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>
> > To: "Colin Walters" <walters verbum org>
> > Cc: atomic-devel projectatomic io
> > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:39:50 AM
> > Subject: Re: [atomic-devel] Base image sizes
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> Timothy St. Clair
> Red Hat Inc.
> 
> 

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Cheers,
Timothy St. Clair
Red Hat Inc.