Re: [atomic-devel] In-flight AH size reduction changes

[Dusty Mabe <dusty dustymabe com>]

On 01/09/2018 09:54 AM, Colin Walters wrote:
> I just want to highlight some "in flight" work on reducing the
> on-disk footprint of Atomic Host (and also Fedora userspace
> in general to some degree).
> 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssl/pull-request/1
> ^ in rawhide, may try to nag maintainer to backport to f27
> This one isn't *large* per se but IMO it's very symbolic
> (hopefully no one is depending on `make` being on the host
>  by default)
> 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/glibc/pull-request/3
> ^ ditto; and related to that one is:
> https://pagure.io/fedora-atomic/pull-request/101
> 
> The biggest item here though is:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1526191
> And there you can see links to two pull requests for SELinux policy
> that are pending review.
> 
> Related to that is:
> https://pagure.io/fedora-atomic/pull-request/102

And.. now that that is merged and we are down to two copies of the initrd
(rather than 3) we now have a reduced image size as can bee seen from looking
at the cloud qcow2 sizes for the past few weeks:

$ for x in {01..14}; do echo -n "201801${x} "; curl --head https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-201801${x}.n.0/compose/CloudImages/x86_64/images/Fedora-Atomic-Rawhide-201801${x}.n.0.x86_64.qcow2 2>/dev/null | grep Content-Length || echo ; done
20180101 Content-Length: 711020032
20180102 Content-Length: 710252032
20180103 Content-Length: 710723072
20180104 Content-Length: 710246912
20180105 Content-Length: 717049856
20180106 
20180107 Content-Length: 718442496
20180108 Content-Length: 718712832
20180109 
20180110 Content-Length: 648413184
20180111 
20180112 
20180113 
20180114 Content-Length: 647090176

> 
> Big picture most of this is sitting in rawhide or in pending
> pull requests, but we *are* working on size issues.
>