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+# See fedora-container-common.ks for details on how to hack on container image kickstarts
+# This base is a standard Fedora-ELN image with python3 and dnf
+
+%include fedora-container-common.ks
+
+%packages --excludedocs --instLangs=en --nocore --excludeWeakdeps
+rootfiles
+# https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/modularity-dead-long-live-modularity/
+fedora-repos-modular
+tar # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1409920
+vim-minimal
+dnf
+yum  # DNF compatibility with yum
+sssd-client
+sudo
+-glibc-langpack-en
+-cracklib-dicts
+-langpacks-en
+%end
+
+%post --erroronfail --log=/root/anaconda-post.log
+# remove some extraneous files
+rm -rf /var/cache/dnf/*
+rm -rf /tmp/*
+
+# https://pagure.io/atomic-wg/issue/308
+printf "tsflags=nodocs\n" >>/etc/dnf/dnf.conf
+
+
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1343138
+# Fix /run/lock breakage since it's not tmpfs in docker
+# This unmounts /run (tmpfs) and then recreates the files
+# in the /run directory on the root filesystem of the container
+#
+# We ignore the return code of the systemd-tmpfiles command because
+# at this point we have already removed the /etc/machine-id and all
+# tmpfiles lines with %m in them will fail and cause a bad return
+# code. Example failure:
+#   [/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf:26] Failed to replace specifiers: /run/log/journal/%m
+#
+umount /run
+rm /run/nologin # https://pagure.io/atomic-wg/issue/316
+
+# Final pruning
+rm -rfv /var/cache/* /var/log/* /tmp/*
+
+%end
+
+%post --nochroot --erroronfail --log=/mnt/sysimage/root/anaconda-post-nochroot.log
+set -eux
+
+# See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051816
+# NOTE: run this in nochroot because "find" does not exist in chroot
+KEEPLANG=en_US
+for dir in locale i18n; do
+    find /mnt/sysimage/usr/share/${dir} -mindepth  1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -not \( -name "${KEEPLANG}" -o -name POSIX \) -exec rm -rfv {} +
+done
+
+%end