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Hi,

Operator may run "rpm --rebuilddb" in case he needs some packages
installed. Alternatively, he may build a new image with rpm/yum databases.

вт, 15 окт. 2019 г. в 11:15, Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur at redhat.com>:

> (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?
>
> Dmitry
>


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