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Image sizes have grown significantly in 1.4
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Description

1.4 images are much larger than 1.3 ones. We need to figure out why.

Details

Difficulty level
Unknown (require assessment)
Version
-
Why the issue appeared?
Will be filled on close
Is it a breaking change?
Perfectly compatible
Issue type
Internal change (not visible to end users)

Related Objects

Event Timeline

30 largest packages in 1.4 dev build:

telegraf 144 MB
linux-image-5.10.109-amd64-vyos 107 MB
libwireshark14 100 MB
vyos-linux-firmware 68.8 MB
containernetworking-plugins 51.2 MB
vyos-http-api-tools 40.4 MB
podman 37.3 MB
python3-pycryptodome 36.0 MB
libicu67 33.9 MB
vim-runtime 32.9 MB
vyos-1x 29.2 MB
libperl5.32 28.5 MB
salt-common 27.9 MB
nmap-common 21.2 MB
frr 20.2 MB
libruby2.7 17.9 MB
coreutils 17.9 MB
perl-modules-5.32 17.9 MB
grub-common 17.8 MB
systemd 16.4 MB
locales 16.4 MB
libc6 13.1 MB
pmacct 13.0 MB
ieee-data 12.3 MB
vyos-intel-qat 11.7 MB
aptitude-common 10.3 MB
gdb 10.0 MB
udev 9,184 kB
grub-efi-amd64-bin 8,831 kB
squid 8,582 kB

The telegraf binary seems to have doubled in size to 144MB compared to 1.3. Perhaps we should consider building it for VyOS without all the ~300 default plugins.

This issue is on and off, but mostly solved now.