On 10/15/19 4:13 AM, Dmitry Tantsur wrote:
(adding TripleO because of potential effect)
Hi all,
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.
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: $ du -sh var/lib/rpm 91M var/lib/rpm $ du -sh var/lib/yum 6.6M var/lib/yum
How important for anyone is the ability to install/inspect packages inside a ramdisk?
Back when we were building the ramdisks with DIB I'm pretty sure we were wiping the RPM db too, so unless something has changed since then I would expect this to be fine.
Dmitry