9.2 Vagrant-boxes are much bigger than 9.1

[alexgit2k]

The Vagrant-boxes for 9.2 are much bigger than the ones for 9.1 (see https://app.vagrantup.com/almalinux/boxes/9):	Provider	9.0	Increase	9.1	Increase	9.2
Virtualbox	598 MB	11%	664 MB	40%	932 MB
Libvirt	505 MB	9%	552 MB	30%	719 MB

I tried to use an 9.1 box as base, updated to 9.2 and then created the box with:

dnf -y update
dnf -y remove kernel-devel gcc binutils make bzip2 elfutils-libelf-devel
dnf -y remove --oldinstallonly kernel
dnf -y autoremove
dnf clean all
truncate -s0 /var/log/*.log /var/log/*/*.log
exit

vagrant package

The resulting box for Virtualbox has a size of 754 MB, which is still 14% bigger, but far away from the 40%.

I do not see any updates in this repository for 9.2, so haven't the 9.2 boxes built the same way as 9.1?

[LKHN]

Hi @alexgit2k , Thanks such detailed issue and your attention.

Which VirtualBox version did you build the 9.2 box?

Those are only changes we have made:

• Finally found the workaround and built it in VirtualBox 7.0 (7.0.8).
• Now one box supports BIOS and UEFI at the same time, it's UEFI by default.

I will push the changes shortly.

[alexgit2k]

I was also using Virtual Box 7.0.8.

So the 9.1 boxes did not support BIOS & UEFI at the same time? Could this be the cause for an increase of about 200 MB (exclusive updates)?

[LKHN]

Yes, true all vagrant boxes for virtualbox provider was BIOS only before the 9.2 release.

Built the BIOS only version and its size is 817 MiB and it has 20 less packages than the BIOS+UEFI version:

So yes, the UEFI support brings own packages with it.

dmidecode
efi-filesystem
efibootmgr
efivar-libs
flashrom
fwupd
fwupd-plugin-flashrom
grub2-efi-x64
json-glib
libgcab1
libgudev
libgusb
libjcat
libsmbios
libusbx
libxmlb
mokutil
polkit-libs
shared-mime-info
shim-x64