[Libguestfs] [PATCH] appliance: exclude /usr/lib/firmware

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jul 23 14:10:41 UTC 2015


Brings the size of the appliance down to 95 MB [xz-compressed], which
is the same as for libguestfs 1.28.
---
 appliance/excludefiles.in | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/appliance/excludefiles.in b/appliance/excludefiles.in
index d3c66cc..a63eca9 100644
--- a/appliance/excludefiles.in
+++ b/appliance/excludefiles.in
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ dnl The right kernel modules are added back by supermin.
 -/boot/*
 -/lib/modules/*
 
+dnl Firmware blobs should not be required by a virtual machine.
+-/usr/lib/firmware/*
+
 -/usr/lib/locale/*
 -/usr/share/cracklib/*
 -/usr/share/doc/*
-- 
2.4.3




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