Re: [PATCH 0/6] Model isar-exclude-docs as rootfs feature

["'MOESSBAUER, Felix' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>]

On Thu, 2026-09-24 at 09:38 +0200, Felix Moessbauer wrote:
> The isar-exclude-docs package provides mechanisms to exclude
> documentation from the image. Technically this is implemented
> by a dpkg filter, as well as a postinst script to strip the
> documentation installed prior to installing the isar-exclude-docs
> package.

Hi,

is there anything missing from my side to get this merged?
I would like to send out the remainder of the build-time improvement
series by today (which depends on this). Then we have all the code
available my talk "Isar build time reduction" on the isar community
event is covering.

Best regards,
Felix

> 
> This has the major drawback of first installing the documentation
> (as isar-exclude-docs is installed along with ROOTFS_PACKAGES) and
> then removing it again - which is even an emulated task and by that
> super slow on a larger rootfs. Further, it does not handle cases
> where docs are generated in a postinst script.
> 
> We now change this to configure apt prior to installing packages.
> This results in less being installed into the rootfs. After that,
> a final cleanup path from outside the chroot strip the remaining bits.
> 
> Best regards,
> Felix Moessbauer
> 
> Felix Moessbauer (6):
>   rootfs: add feature to clean isar generated dpkg config
>   image: add IMAGE_ROOTFS_FEATURES to set rootfs features of the image
>   isar-exclude-docs: model via rootfs feature
>   rootfs: also purge package changelogs on exclude-docs
>   kas: port isar-exclude-docs to rootfs feature
>   testsuite: replace isar-exclude-docs by rootfs feature
> 
>  RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md                       | 14 ++++++
>  kas/opt/Kconfig                               |  9 ++++
>  .../exclude-docs.yaml}                        |  4 +-
>  kas/package/Kconfig                           | 11 -----
>  meta-isar/conf/local.conf.sample              |  6 ++-
>  .../recipes-core/images/isar-image-ci.bb      |  2 +
>  .../recipes-core/images/isar-rootfs-ci.bb     |  1 +
>  meta/classes-recipe/image.bbclass             |  3 ++
>  meta/classes-recipe/rootfs.bbclass            | 45 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../isar-exclude-docs_0.2.3.bb                |  4 ++
>  scripts/generate_yaml.sh                      |  1 -
>  testsuite/cibuilder.py                        |  1 -
>  12 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>  rename kas/{package/pkg_isar-exclude-docs.yaml => opt/exclude-docs.yaml} (58%)
> 
> -- 
> 2.55.0

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