[Libguestfs] [PATCH] appliance: exclude /usr/lib/firmware
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jul 23 15:34:31 UTC 2015
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 05:28:12PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
> On Thursday 23 July 2015 15:10:41 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > 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/*
> > +
>
> Hm this should rather be /lib/firmware, as that's the canonical
> locations for firmwares on Linux (/usr/lib/firmware exists on UsrMove
> systems).
>
> LGTM if changed to /lib/firmware.
Good point. Before I commit this I'll have to check it still works if
we use /lib/firmware.
Rich.
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