Libguestfs - Jul 2015 - [PATCH v2] appliance: exclude /lib/firmware

Brings the size of the appliance down to 95 MB [xz-compressed], which
is the same as for libguestfs 1.28.
---
 appliance/excludefiles.in | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/appliance/excludefiles.in b/appliance/excludefiles.in
index d3c66cc..574c828 100644
--- a/appliance/excludefiles.in
+++ b/appliance/excludefiles.in
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ dnl The right kernel modules are added back by supermin.
 -/boot/*
 -/lib/modules/*
 
+dnl Firmware blobs should not be required by a virtual machine.
+dnl Because of UsrMove nonsense, we need to list both directories.
+-/lib/firmware/*
+-/usr/lib/firmware/*
+
 -/usr/lib/locale/*
 -/usr/share/cracklib/*
 -/usr/share/doc/*
-- 
2.4.3

On Thursday 23 July 2015 16:43:35 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 | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/appliance/excludefiles.in b/appliance/excludefiles.in
> index d3c66cc..574c828 100644
> --- a/appliance/excludefiles.in
> +++ b/appliance/excludefiles.in
> @@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ dnl The right kernel modules are added back by supermin.
>  -/boot/*
>  -/lib/modules/*
>  
> +dnl Firmware blobs should not be required by a virtual machine.
> +dnl Because of UsrMove nonsense, we need to list both directories.
> +-/lib/firmware/*
> +-/usr/lib/firmware/*
> +
>  -/usr/lib/locale/*
>  -/usr/share/cracklib/*
>  -/usr/share/doc/*
LGTM.

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Pino Toscano