Re: [RFC PATCH] meta/classes: Add strip-image

["'Jan Kiszka' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>]

On 03.09.25 19:13, Quirin Gylstorff wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/3/25 18:19, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 03.09.25 17:20, 'Quirin Gylstorff' via isar-users wrote:
>>> From: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
>>>
>>> This class provides the optional functionality to strip packages
>>> and files from a image. This allows the user to reduce the image
>>> size.
>>>
>>> IMPORTANT: This is an expert feature and can lead to broken images.
>>> Signed-off-by: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> The default settings will reduce the space around 40MB. It is currently
>>> a RFC to collect information about the usage.
>>>
>>> Should we integrate by default or should the user add this on demand?
>>> For a default integration I would drop the deletion:
>>>   - /vmlinuz*
>>>   - /boot
>>>   - /usr/include
>>>   - initramfs-tools
>>>
>>
>> The approach isar-exclude-docs takes for docs cannot be used here? And
>> we want that approach to stay for cleaning docs? Or what is the relation
>> between the two?
> 
> We can use isar-exclude-docs or the use the same implementation. I
> didn't use it as it only removes around 3M  from /usr/share/docs in my
> tests from against an unmodified target.
> 
> The second part is that isar-exclude-docs is executed during the pacakge
> installation.
> Which makes it impossible to remove other files(e.g. /usr/bin/apt-*).
> 

Would be great if we could have only one mechanism in the end that is
powerful enough to express all removal scenarios.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Foundational Technologies
Linux Expert Center

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "isar-users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to isar-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/isar-users/90ba0364-32c4-4b41-afe7-9cc3e5deb1f1%40siemens.com.