Challenge

The salt-minion client-side agent is still a bit hefty due to its dependencies and SUSE's strange Python packaging. Let's see how to create a minimal salt-minion packaging.

Results

Just by splitting off the .py files, I achieved a dramatic saving from 32.7 MB to 18.7 MB (14 MB less !).

See here for packages.

See mipy for a python-spec minimizer.

Normal (32.7 MB)

&gt; sudo zypper in salt-minion
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 15 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  libpgm-5_2-0 libsodium17 libzmq5 python-backports.ssl_match_hostname python-futures python-Jinja2 python-MarkupSafe python-msgpack-python python-psutil python-PyYAML python-pyzmq python-requests python-tornado salt salt-minion

The following 2 recommended packages were automatically selected:
  python-futures python-tornado

15 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 6,4 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 32,7 MiB will be used.

Minified (18.8 MB)

&gt; sudo zypper in salt-minion
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following 15 NEW packages are going to be installed:
  libpgm-5_2-0 libsodium17 libzmq5 python-backports.ssl_match_hostname python-futures python-Jinja2 python-MarkupSafe python-msgpack-python python-psutil python-PyYAML python-pyzmq python-requests python-tornado salt salt-minion

The following 2 recommended packages were automatically selected:
  python-futures python-tornado

15 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 4,6 MiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 18,8 MiB will be used.

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Ubuntu Server 15.10 Standard Install

sudo apt-get install salt-minion
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dctrl-tools debconf-utils libpgm-5.1-0 libpython-stdlib libsodium13 libyaml-0-2 libzmq3 python python-apt python-cffi python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-croniter python-crypto python-cryptography
  python-dateutil python-enum34 python-idna python-ipaddress python-jinja2 python-m2crypto python-markupsafe python-minimal python-msgpack python-ndg-httpsclient python-openssl python-pkg-resources
  python-ply python-pyasn1 python-pycparser python-requests python-six python-tz python-urllib3 python-yaml python-zmq python2.7 python2.7-minimal salt-common
Suggested packages:
  debtags python-doc python-tk python-apt-dbg python-apt-doc python-dev python-crypto-dbg python-crypto-doc python-cryptography-doc python-cryptography-vectors python-enum34-doc python-jinja2-doc
  python-openssl-doc python-openssl-dbg python-setuptools python-ply-doc doc-base cpp python-ntlm python2.7-doc binutils binfmt-support salt-doc python-mako python-augeas
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dctrl-tools debconf-utils libpgm-5.1-0 libpython-stdlib libsodium13 libyaml-0-2 libzmq3 python python-apt python-cffi python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-croniter python-crypto python-cryptography
  python-dateutil python-enum34 python-idna python-ipaddress python-jinja2 python-m2crypto python-markupsafe python-minimal python-msgpack python-ndg-httpsclient python-openssl python-pkg-resources
  python-ply python-pyasn1 python-pycparser python-requests python-six python-tz python-urllib3 python-yaml python-zmq python2.7 python2.7-minimal salt-common salt-minion
0 upgraded, 40 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,710 kB of archives.
After this operation, 29.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Ubuntu Server 15.10 Standard Install

sudo apt-get install salt-minion
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  dctrl-tools debconf-utils libpgm-5.1-0 libpython-stdlib libsodium13 libyaml-0-2 libzmq3 python python-apt python-cffi python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-croniter python-crypto python-cryptography
  python-dateutil python-enum34 python-idna python-ipaddress python-jinja2 python-m2crypto python-markupsafe python-minimal python-msgpack python-ndg-httpsclient python-openssl python-pkg-resources
  python-ply python-pyasn1 python-pycparser python-requests python-six python-tz python-urllib3 python-yaml python-zmq python2.7 python2.7-minimal salt-common
Suggested packages:
  debtags python-doc python-tk python-apt-dbg python-apt-doc python-dev python-crypto-dbg python-crypto-doc python-cryptography-doc python-cryptography-vectors python-enum34-doc python-jinja2-doc
  python-openssl-doc python-openssl-dbg python-setuptools python-ply-doc doc-base cpp python-ntlm python2.7-doc binutils binfmt-support salt-doc python-mako python-augeas
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dctrl-tools debconf-utils libpgm-5.1-0 libpython-stdlib libsodium13 libyaml-0-2 libzmq3 python python-apt python-cffi python-cffi-backend python-chardet python-croniter python-crypto python-cryptography
  python-dateutil python-enum34 python-idna python-ipaddress python-jinja2 python-m2crypto python-markupsafe python-minimal python-msgpack python-ndg-httpsclient python-openssl python-pkg-resources
  python-ply python-pyasn1 python-pycparser python-requests python-six python-tz python-urllib3 python-yaml python-zmq python2.7 python2.7-minimal salt-common salt-minion
0 upgraded, 40 newly installed, 0 to remove and 44 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,710 kB of archives.
After this operation, 29.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.

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