Re: [RFC 0/2] Remove Packages during Postprocessing

[Balasubramanian Sundaram <balasubramanian.sundaram@sanmina.com>]

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Hi Team,

Iam using ISAR build system for imx6 nxp based processor, I need to remove 
some user binaries like perl, shared-mime-info,libx11-6,
can you please provide steps or which file i need to change to remove these 
binaries in the final .wic.image

Thanks & Regards

On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 11:13:57 AM UTC+5:30 Gylstorff Quirin 
wrote:

>
>
> On 2/24/20 3:24 PM, Henning Schild wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > my opinion on that is clear. Fix it upstream or live with those
> > packages. You are either on a distro or fiddle around and tune
> > everything until you are the only one on the planet testing your setup.
> > That is Isar vs. yocto ... whoever thinks they _need_ that should maybe
> > think again. If they need it they can put it into their own layer or
> > use yocto ;).
> > I do not think upstream should carry such hacky features unless we get
> > better reasoning ... Removing "required" packages has the potential to
> > break your image in funny ways ... that is much more expensive than a
> > few MB disc space. All affected packages are likely already cleared and
> > vulnerabilty monitored by someone else, find that someone and share the
> > cost!
> > 
> > Henning
>
> Hi Henning,
>
> I understand your concern and I think you are right. But some people
> already hack the build process in similar ways and this is a way to give
> them some support.
>
> I want to collect the option of community regarding this patch.
>
> Quirin
>
> > 
> > On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:53:46 +0100
> > "Q. Gylstorff" <Quirin.G...@siemens.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.g...@siemens.com>
> >>
> >> Some packages even if the are part of minbase are not necessary
> >> to run a debian system. Debian has some issues and experiments
> >> to remove packages from minbase [1]. This feature allows a
> >> expert user to remove packages from the final image during post
> >> processing.
> >>
> >> The reason for this are e.g. disk usage reduction and reduction
> >> of the clearing effort.
> >>
> >> The method to remove packages in postprocessing is a best-effort
> >> action.
> >>
> >> Another way would be to identify like [1] packages in
> >> minbase which can be removed without compremising the isar rootfs
> >> creation and remove them directly after or during bootstrapping.
> >> If a package is used for a production related feature it should be
> >> reinstalled.
> >>
> >>
> >> [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/BusterPriorityRequalification
> >>
> >> Quirin Gylstorff (2):
> >> meta/classes: Add remove packages to rootfs postprocessing
> >> meta-isar/images: Remove gcc-8-base from rootfs
> >>
> >> meta-isar/recipes-core/images/isar-image-base.bb | 4 ++++
> >> meta/classes/image.bbclass | 2 +-
> >> meta/classes/rootfs.bbclass | 13 +++++++++++++
> >> 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> > 
>
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