[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH] repost: some cleanup of ovirt-host kickstart to make images smaller

[Perry N. Myers]

Perry N. Myers wrote:
> This patch adds --excludedocs to the kickstart for the x86_64 and i386 
> ovirt host kickstarts.  For the most part we're removing docs manually 
> right now anyhow, but this may catch some other things.
> 
> Also cleaned up the section that removes docs and localization.  
> Recreate the cracklib dicts (frees up about 8MB) and remove unneeded 
> kernel modules.  Most of this stuff will just end up in the 
> whitelist/blacklist module, but the cracklib stuff is a different 
> issue.  They can't be removed, they need to be recreated.  This will 
> probably need to continue to happen in %post.
> 
> The end result of this cleanup is that the image boots and it is 58MB 
> compressed/162MB uncompressed (filesystem is 450MB total)
> 
> One of the things we need to fix is the filesystem total size.  The 
> filesystem doesn't need to be 450MB.  It could be initially created as 
> 450MB and then resized to 200MB or less.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com>

Changed to remove /usr/share/i18n completely, added back sunrpc modules 
and merged with Jim's fix for removing debugging statements.

Signed-off-by: Perry Myers <pmyers at redhat.com>




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