> I hacked up some quick Dockerfiles for this particular example (httpd)
and the end result is that alpine was still smaller - 8.652 MB vs. 232.8 MB
you can use this trick to strip ~100MB
localedef --prefix $OSROOT --list-archive xargs localedef --prefix
$OSROOT --delete-from-archive
mv $OSROOT/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
$OSROOT/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive.tmpl
chroot $OSROOT /usr/sbin/build-locale-archive
but if you measure the size of the compressed tarball, it's not much.
you can try use
rpm --root $OSROOT --dbpath /var/lib/rpm --initdb
then add a temporary yum line pointing to the repo
cat <<EOF >> $OSROOT/etc/yum.repos.d/tmp.repo
[tmp$i]
name=tmp$i
$line
gpgcheck=0
EOF
then install your packages (you don't need to have much)
yum --nogpgcheck --installroot=$OSROOT --releasever=$release $yumsetopt
install -y $packages
if you install system-release using rpm you can eliminate "--nogpgcheck"
and "$OSROOT/etc/yum.repos.d/tmp.repo"
maybe you may want to make sure to install "filesystem" (with either
busybox or "bash grep tar coreutils findutils sed cpio cyrus-sasl gawk vi
passwd sudo")
add httpd to that and let's see
