Re: Minimizing isar-image-base

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2018-08-20 09:22, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> a couple of questions on what we pre-install into the de-facto standard 
> base image for everything that builds on Isar:
> 
> - Why do we pre-install init, but only for >= stretch?
> 
> - Why do we pre-install dbus?
> 
> - Can we make apt optional? Installing it as transient package by
>    default, e.g. What would happen if a downstream image then puts it
>    into PREINSTALL again? Should we filter IMAGE_TRANSIENT_PACKAGES
>    against IMAGE_PREINSTALL?
> 
> Alternatively, we could define some isar-image-tiny that removes 
> packages from the base image, possibly also some that debootstrap pulls in.
> 
> Ideas, suggestions?
> 
> Jan
> 

Oh, and we may want to consider doing that meta/meta-isar refactoring 
now. Stuff like isar-image-base could become debian-image-base under meta.

Jan

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