Hi Helmut! Am Di., 15. Juni 2021 um 19:09 Uhr schrieb Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de>: > 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 -- I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/