Bug 2021671
| Summary: | glibc: Backport "glibc-doc" subpackage to support smaller production containers. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Reporter: | Carlos O'Donell <codonell> |
| Component: | glibc | Assignee: | Arjun Shankar <ashankar> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Sergey Kolosov <skolosov> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 8.6 | CC: | ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, mcoufal, mnewsome, pfrankli, sipoyare |
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | FeatureBackport, Patch, Triaged |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | glibc-2.28-174.el8 | Doc Type: | No Doc Update |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2022-05-10 15:17:47 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Notes on what has changed: * New glibc-doc subpackage * Updating from previous versions does not auto-install glibc-doc * Files moved from existing packages to glibc-doc: - glibc: rtld-debugger-interface.txt - glibc-devel: libc.info*.gz (info pages) * Files removed from existing packages: - glibc: README, INSTALL, and NEWS - glibc-common: gai.conf and README.timezone Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (glibc bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:2005 |
We want to backport this to RHEL 8.6 to reduce production container sizes by allowing glibc-docs to be uninstalled. The savings are ~300KiB of installed docs. commit 1fa03e97ae4cb44f5f7e1938a4315a39e0306c87 Author: Arjun Shankar <arjun> Date: Sat Jan 23 19:16:05 2021 +0100 Introduce new glibc-doc.noarch subpackage (#1346925) The info pages of The GNU C Library Reference Manual included in the devel subpackage, were (slightly) increasing the installed size of systems that required the devel object files but not the manual. In addition to this, a number of unnecessary files (READMEs, NEWS, INSTALL, and an example gai.conf) were included in either the main package or the common subpackage. This commit introduces a new glibc-doc.noarch subpackage and moves the info pages from the devel subpackage and the debugger interface documentation from the main package into glibc-doc. It also removes all the unnecessary documentation-like files mentioned above.