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Description of problem:
In looking at reducing the size of some container images based on ubi8 I noticed that the ubi8-minimal:8.2 image is 146Meg, which is much larger than than the 108Meg for 8.1 (and way larger that ubi7's 82Meg). This seems to be due to the inclusion of platform-python, which is a dependency for crypto-policy. Unless I'm mistaken the python dependency is only required due to the update-crypto-policies command in crypto-policy.
Could something be done to remove the dependency on python for crypto-policies? :)
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
8.2
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get the ubi8-minimal images for v8.1 and v8.2
# podman pull ubi8-minimal:8.1
# podman pull ubi8-minimal:8.2
2. Compare sizes of v8.1 and v8.2
# podman images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8-minimal 8.2 75a64ccf990b 2 weeks ago 146 MB
registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8-minimal 8.1 91d23a64fdf2 3 months ago 108 MB
Actual results:
# podman run -it ubi8-minimal:8.2 rpm -qa | grep python
python3-setuptools-wheel-39.2.0-5.el8.noarch
platform-python-setuptools-39.2.0-5.el8.noarch
python3-libs-3.6.8-23.el8.x86_64
python3-pip-wheel-9.0.3-16.el8.noarch
platform-python-3.6.8-23.el8.x86_64
# podman run -it ubi8-minimal:8.2 rpm -qR crypto-policies
...
/usr/libexec/platform-python
...
Expected results:
Expected that python would not be installed onto the image similar to 8.1.
Running the same commands on 8.1 return:
# podman run -it ubi8-minimal:8.1 rpm -qa | grep python
Nothing returned.
# podman run -it ubi8-minimal:8.1 rpm -qR crypto-policies
Output does not include python
Additional info:
There may be a very good reason for this dependency, but adding around 38Meg to the image size does bring the image very close to ubi8's 212Meg and feels wrong.