How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify

Re:How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify by nathwill on Saturday April 25, 2015 @12:19PM (#9438725)

Why not ldd?

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Re:How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify by daakus on Saturday April 25, 2015 @12:58PM (#9438842)

It doesn't find dependencies like /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt or /usr/share/zoneinfo.

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Re:How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify by nathwill on Saturday April 25, 2015 @02:01PM (#9439026)

ah, thanks.

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Re:How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify by sophacles on Saturday April 25, 2015 @12:49PM (#9438806)

I've been playing with a project to do this. The first major obvious problem is anything that uses dlopen won't necessarily get all that it needs.

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Re:How I shrunk a Docker image by 98.8% – featuring fanotify by errordeveloper on Saturday April 25, 2015 @02:09PM (#9439074)

Yes. Grepping the code or fighting runtime errors are two complementary approaches I can think of... Not sure if there are other methods.

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