On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 05:37:44PM +0000, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 24/02/2023 5:29 pm, Anthony PERARD wrote: > > Patch series available in this git branch: > > https://xenbits.xen.org/git-http/people/aperard/xen-unstable.git > > br.gitlab-containers-update-v3 > > > > v3: > > - new patch which remove non-debug x86_32 builds > > - don't fix root certificates in jessie containers as those won't be used > > anymore on the main branch. > > > > v2: > > - Remove CentOS 7.2 > > - Remove Debian Jessie test, but update container recipe for the benefit of > > older branches. > > - Fix CentOS 7 containner recipe to update all packages. (Fix missing > > update of > > HTTPS root certificates) > > > > There is work in progress [1] to update urls in our repo to use https, but > > those https urls to xenbits don't work in our containers, due to an expired > > root certificate. So we need to update those containers. > > > > This series update the dockerfile where just rebuilding the container isn't > > enough. > > LGTM. > > Acked-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> > > I'll add this to my commit sweep, and rebuild the remaining containers. > > But on that note, I noticed that the debian unstable container was 2.3G > when I last rebuilt it. Which I think is obscenely large for what we're > doing. > > Can we see about switching to slim/tiny container bases?
I don't think that would help much, the non-slim container is only 116MB vs 74.6MB for the slim (amd64 containers). But maybe we could try to use "--no-install-recommends", that might save a few bytes in our containers. Cheers, -- Anthony PERARD
