Re: [PATCH] isar-mmdebstrap: reduce rootfs size as much as possible

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

On 10.01.25 07:02, Arjunan, Srinu (FT FDS CES LX PBU 2) wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
>             I hope this isar-exclude-docs package can be used to exclude the documentation in the image rootfs, but here I introduced this customization for the bootstrap rootfs.
> 
> Additionally we are cleaning the locales under /usr/share in the bootstrap rootfs.
> 
> With this reduced size of the bootstrap rootfs, we achieve the sbuildchroot-<host/target> size also reduced.
> 

Still no reason to not use that existing package, maybe extending it. It
already comes with the configurability that your approach is missing and
cannot introduce that nicely.

Jan

> Many thanks,
> Srinu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kiszka, Jan (FT RPD CED) <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> 
> Sent: 09 January 2025 21:00
> To: Arjunan, Srinu (FT FDS CES LX PBU 2) <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>; isar-users@googlegroups.com
> Cc: Hombourger, Cedric (FT FDS CES LX) <cedric.hombourger@siemens.com>; amikan@ilbers.de
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] isar-mmdebstrap: reduce rootfs size as much as possible
> 
> On 09.01.25 16:27, Arjunan, Srinu (FT FDS CES LX PBU 2) wrote:
>> I validated the isar-mmdebstrap-target rootfs with and without docs, I could able to see approx  17MB differences.
>>
> 
> That is not my point.
> 
> Are you trying to optimize the intermediate artifact sizes or the final image? The latter should also be addressed by using isar-exclude-docs.
> The former would need some stronger motivation, I would say...
> 
> Jan
> 
>> Note: compared the compressed rootfs (rootfs.tar.zst) file
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Srinu
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Kiszka, Jan (FT RPD CED) <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
>> Sent: 09 January 2025 20:50
>> To: Arjunan, Srinu (FT FDS CES LX PBU 2) <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>; 
>> isar-users@googlegroups.com
>> Cc: Hombourger, Cedric (FT FDS CES LX) 
>> <cedric.hombourger@siemens.com>; amikan@ilbers.de
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] isar-mmdebstrap: reduce rootfs size as much as 
>> possible
>>
>> On 09.01.25 13:17, srinuvasan.a via isar-users wrote:
>>> From: srinuvasan <srinuvasan.a@siemens.com>
>>>
>>> reduce the rootfs image size by excluding man and doc, this changes 
>>> significantly reduce size from (~80MB) to (~64MB).
>>>
>>
>> What's the (final) difference to isar-exclude-docs?
>>
>> Jan
>>
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