Closing this one as the installed-os test has been fixed.
Mathieu
Hey,
> Let’s just set the ‘locale-libcs’ field in (gnu tests) so that it
> contains a single libc. WDYT?
I'll see first if I can get the closure smaller by other means. I think
it would be preferable to keep the tested operating-system as close as
possible to the default one.
>> * "openssh" i
Hi!
Mathieu Othacehe skribis:
> By reverting this commit 0eed77127592323d89f56c215a15374a1aaae110
> (introducing an extra glibc to %default-locale-libcs), it drops down to:
>
> 1305.5 MiB.
>
> Now multiple options:
>
> * Revert this commit.
> * Find other system closure improvements.
> * Up the
> All in all, fixing all of this makes the closure size to drop below 1GiB
> which is already a good first step.
>
> I'll try to provide patches soon.
I also discovered that enabling CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS, the size of
linux-libre is reduced by 63%.
This makes the image way lighter.
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> Now multiple options:
>
> * Revert this commit.
> * Find other system closure improvements.
> * Up the limit to 1.5GiB.
>
> WDYT?
Digging a bit more, I discovered multiple culprits in the image closure
size.
* "openssh" is dragging "xauth" which drags some X libraries (but this
does not accou
Hello
The installed-os test is failing because the image closure is (again)
bigger than the allocated 1.4GiB in the test partition.
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guix size $(./pre-inst-env guix system build
gnu/system/examples/bare-bones.tmpl)
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