a. pre-empt future compose failure due to running out of space
b. existing l-i-t-d persistent root feature depends on the free space on this file system, right now free space is just under 650M and is a bit tight
c. fairly certain free space dropping below 90% is why I'm running into https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1715699
As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1720311 , no
KDE deliverables actually include fedora-release-kde, so they
are not identified as being the KDE variant at all. This change
would result in the KDE live image and ARM disk image including
fedora-release-kde.
Signed-off-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
It seems that systemd is required by anaconda which wants
to setup the default target. Since dnf dependencies to systemd
was dropped in [0] we need to install it explicitly.
[0] - faa199f160
Signed-off-by: Clement Verna <cverna@tutanota.com>
This change is breaking python pytz module which
expect to find the zone.tab file in the zoneinfo
directory.
See BZ #1737013
Signed-off-by: Clement Verna <cverna@tutanota.com>
Trying to use dnf in the latest rawhide container compose fails
with a RuntimeError: Statement: no such table: trans_item in
Signed-off-by: Clement Verna <cverna@tutanota.com>
The base image does need to have langpacks-core-en, this has for effect
to remove the dejavu fonts from the base image.
Signed-off-by: Clement Verna <cverna@tutanota.com>
This brings some of the fedora-minimal optimization to the fedora
base image. We remove the timezones info, default fonts and some
logs.
Signed-off-by: Clement Verna <cverna@tutanota.com>
Those are pretty useless in containers. People want small containers and
if something extra is needed, they are going to install it. There is no
point in having python3-unbound or rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit in there…
Closes: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/8530
Signed-off-by: Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org>
Compressed RAM as a swap is faster than disk. This makes most machines
more interactive when under low memory pressure, and, combined with no
disk-backed swap, reduces wear and tear on "flash" storage with limited
number of writes.
Remove additional scanning packages brought in by gnome.
Un-blacklist some packages now needed by libvirt.
Signed-off-by: Rich Mattes <richmattes@gmail.com>
This commit remove the cracklib-dicts package which provides
tests passwords to help user choose strong password. The
package is not required by any other packages.
This will save ~9MB from the base image size.
Signed-off-by: Clement Verna <cverna@tutanota.com>
This commit makes sure that we don't install the all the en locale
in the base image. This remove around 60MB of the size of the container
Signed-off-by: Clement Verna <cverna@tutanota.com>
There was race condition between hostname taking effect and lightdm setting up
Xorg service that X client would fail to find a proper xauth entry to connect
the X server.
hostnamectl will also rewrite /etc/hostname.
