On Wed, 15 Oct 2025 at 18:23, Lexi Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > Lexi Winter wrote in <[email protected]>: > > Roger Marquis wrote in < > [email protected]>: > > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2025, Lexi Winter wrote: > > > > we will never ship a set for a "minimal jail" because this is > entirely > > > > up to the user requirements. there is *no* package which is > absolutely > > > > required to install a jail, because it depends on what you will > install > > > > in the jail. so it doesn't make sense to ship any sort of package > set > > > > like this. > > > > > > How could it not make sense when 'distroless' Linux container images > are > > > so popular? > > > > i have no idea what a "distroless Linux container image" is. could you > > please describe this in more detail? > > i asked another committer about this, and they explained that a > "distroless Linux container image" is a container image which only > contains basic system files like /etc/passwd and /etc/resolv.conf, > for use with a statically-linked application, like a Go app. > > this is something i would like to support in pkgbase and am actively > working on, but it has nothing to do with sets, at least not right now. > > certainly, if we do support this in pkgbase, it will have nothing to do > with the "minimal" set. > > does that make sense? >
For what it's worth, the freebsd-static and freebsd-dynamic OCI images which are part of our release build are inspired by Google's distroless images (https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless).
