manpages inside the container about docker-redmine HOT 7 CLOSED

@b-a-t I am not sure about adding man command in the container. Technically the user is not expected to do anything with the container other than just deploy redmine.

I never paid any attention to the manpages / docs that packages installed. If removing them proves to be a huge space saver then maybe I will remove them. If the difference is negligible then I will not bother removing them.

On the other hand if installing man-db package does not make much of a difference on the image size then maybe I will consider adding it. However I don't feel very comfortable doing so.

edit: And yes adding man-db to the base image makes more sense then adding them here.

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I understand. I'm not sure which path is better either. In pro-man argument I can add that when I needed to look for the syntax of bzr for redmine setup(which I don't use and don't have installed system-wide) the handiest option was to see it within a container.

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@b-a-t I understand.. I'll take a call on this as soon as I can see what difference it makes on the image size.

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I think container shouldn't have anything that is not needed to run it. There are other options if you want to customize the images. For fast things like adding man pages you could also add it to the init script which is used to init plugins.

You can test it up using my automated installer, see: https://github.com/majkinetor/redserver. If you use it, you can change redserver ansible provisioner to add desired stuff to the server once, not the container. See base role for that.

@sameersbn, My installer also contains updated version of plugin downloader script which contains a lot less repetition.

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Well, my point is - we install manpages anyhow, so should take one step farther in one of the directions - if we want to be conservative on a disk space, then should delete them all or, we may install man-db and be able eventually actually read those manpages.
Personally, for me ability to read those manpages was useful, while I was hacking around the image.

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@b-a-t removing the existing man pages in /usr/share/man does not have any effect on the final size of the image. For my gitlab image, the size of /usr/share/man directory is ~9M. Out of this ~7M comes from the base ubuntu image. Deleting the contents of /usr/share/man in higher layers does not reflect in the final image size because physically these files exist.

This leaves us with the option of either installing the man package or leave the image as is. I prefer the later even though installing the man package only increases the image size by ~5M.

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I don't think you should install user tools. It's trivial for people to base an image on yours and add stuff if they want it, or to look at the man pages in another environment.

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