docker-debian-artifacts

Official builds of debuerreotype-generated Debian tarballs for use in Docker

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Official builds of debuerreotype-generated Debian tarballs for use in Docker

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2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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MuffinFlavored·Mar 27, 2023

What's different between debian:bullseye-slim and debian:bullsye (assuming you are talking about https://hub.docker.com/_/debian) let me try to answer/research this question myself to find the answer/go on this journey: takes me to non slim: https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/tre... slim: https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/tre... https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/blo... versus https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/blo... two files are identical so at a quick glance i have no clue what is going into rootfs.tar.xz that makes one slim and one not go to google: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59794891/how-does-debian...

In Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)

core-questions·Dec 10, 2019

Well, you're always coming FROM something, unless you're coming FROM scratch, which is literally empty. A popular base image is Debian Buster. What's in the Dockerfile? https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/blo... Wow, simple, it just adds a "rootfs" archive. What's in there? https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/blo... Aha. So what we have in rootfs.xz is essentially the output of a Debian system with all of those packages installed in it, and the minimal configuration needed to tie them together. No init system, no kernel, just a big filesystem full of the usual stuff an absolutely minimal Debian install would have. Now, when you run FROM debian:buster, what you get is a base layer with enough to be useful. `apt-get` is there with a default repository list that works fine, and you can install things

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