Re: Publishing raw generic{,cloud} images without tar, and without compression, plus versionning of point releases

[Thomas Lange <lange@cs.uni-koeln.de>]

>>>>> On Wed, 27 May 2020 12:01:53 +0200, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> said:

    > On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:39:01AM +0200, Thomas Lange wrote:
    >> fai-diskimage has the option -S which specifies the raw disk size. We
    >> set this in debian_cloud_images/cli/build.py to 2G for genriccloud
    >> images. It should be easy to set this to maybe 550M.

    > Sadly it is not that easy.  A whole bunch of temporary data is deleted
    > in the final stages of the build process.
You mean those bigger ones?
rm -rf $target/var/cache/apt/*
rm -rf $target/var/lib/apt/lists/*

FAI can put a ramdisk on to of those directories (using FAI_RAMDISKS),
and will also do the cleanup later.

Anything else I've missed?

-- 
regards Thomas