<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Operator may run "rpm --rebuilddb" in case he needs some packages installed. Alternatively, he may build a new image with rpm/yum databases.<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">вт, 15 окт. 2019 г. в 11:15, Dmitry Tantsur <<a href="mailto:dtantsur@redhat.com">dtantsur@redhat.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>(adding TripleO because of potential effect)</div><div><br></div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm working on making ironic-python-agent images smaller than they currently are. The proposed patches already reduce the default image (as built by IPA-builder) size from around 420 MiB to around 380 MiB.</div><div><br></div><div>My next idea is to get rid of RPM and YUM databases (in case of a CentOS/RHEL image). They amount for nearly 100 MiB of the uncompressed image:</div><div>$ du -sh var/lib/rpm<br>91M var/lib/rpm<br>$ du -sh var/lib/yum<br>6.6M var/lib/yum</div><div><br></div><div>How important for anyone is the ability to install/inspect packages inside a ramdisk?</div><div><br></div><div>Dmitry<br></div></div>
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