Hi Helmut!
Am Di., 15. Juni 2021 um 19:09 Uhr schrieb Helmut Grohne <[email protected]>:
> I looked into why the .tar.zst images for debspawn are so big. Indeed,
> they contain a lot of stuff that does not belong there. Examples
> include:
>
> * dmidecode
> * fdisk
> * ifupdown
> * init
> * isc-dhcp-client
> * kmod
> * nftables
> * rsyslog
> * systemd
> * tasksel
> * vim-tiny
>
> When one passes --variant buildd to debspawn create, the size is much
> smaller. When doing so, one has to pass --variant buildd to every
> debspawn build and debspawn login invocation. That's quite annoying.
> Given that debspawn's primary use is building, how about defaulting the
> variant to buildd?
I actually wanted to make this change, however for some reason when I
create "buildd" variant images, despite having less pages, the images
turn out larger (233.4 MiB for a default bullseye image, and 259.6 MiB
for a build bullseye image).
This makes no sense to me at all, so I'll defer this change a bit
until I've figured out what is actually consuming this space.
Cheers,
Matthias
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