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Remove unused manpages to free up space
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Description

According to the buildscript there is already a cleanup of documentation from within the iso:

https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/blob/current/data/live-build-config/hooks/live/80-delete-docs.chroot

# We do not need any documentation on the system. This frees some space.
# Copyright/licenses files are ignored for deletion

And since "man" isnt installed:

root@vyos:/home/vyos# man
bash: man: command not found

Couldnt then the content of /usr/share/man also be deleted to free up some space (approx 13 megabytes out of which most are compressed gz-files)?

root@vyos:/home/vyos# du -sm /usr/share/man/
13	/usr/share/man/

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Unknown (require assessment)
Version
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Why the issue appeared?
Will be filled on close
Is it a breaking change?
Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)
Issue type
Improvement (missing useful functionality)

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Event Timeline

Apachez created this task.Aug 12 2023, 6:32 AM
Apachez claimed this task.Aug 23 2023, 10:26 PM
Apachez added a comment.Aug 23 2023, 10:37 PM

PR created: https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/pull/378

pasik added a subscriber: pasik.Aug 24 2023, 6:25 AM
Apachez added a comment.Aug 24 2023, 7:26 AM

PR created (which replaces previous PR 378): https://github.com/vyos/vyos-build/pull/379

Apachez added a comment.Aug 25 2023, 3:45 PM

Confirmed fixed in VyOS 1.4-rolling-202308250021:

vyos@vyos:~$ ls -la /usr/share/man
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/man': No such file or directory

Also comparing iso size between 1.4-rolling-202308240020 and 1.4-rolling-202308250021 over at https://github.com/vyos/vyos-rolling-nightly-builds/releases/ shows a diff of approx 13 MB smaller size.

Apachez closed this task as Resolved.Aug 25 2023, 3:46 PM
Apachez mentioned this in T5511: Cleanup of unused directories (and files) in order to shrink image-size.Aug 26 2023, 2:19 AM