https://github.com/afbjorklund/ma
distribution minimalism
https://github.com/afbjorklund/ma
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distribution minimalism
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/afbjorklund/ma
- Owner: afbjorklund
- Created: 2022-11-09T20:07:30.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-11-09T21:01:03.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-06-22T11:08:24.565Z (4 months ago)
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- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# ma - distribution minimalism
Small distribution for constructing container images.
There is no traditional package manager _inside_ the target image.
Instead, the software is built using a host build system.
This means that the resulting image can stay "minimalistic".
While the build image contains all the tools needed to make it.
```
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
buildroot/base latest b8817d0eaa5e 3 days ago 975MB
buildroot/root latest 9344bf52a6d5 3 days ago 1.46MB
```
The basic distro only consists of two components:
- uclibc (the system library)
- busybox (the system binaries)
There are input and output provided in two components:
- toolchain (the compiler sdk)
- rootfs (the root filesystem)
```
61M x86_64-buildroot-linux-uclibc_sdk-buildroot.tar.gz
756K x86_64-rootfs.tar.gz
61M aarch64-buildroot-linux-uclibc_sdk-buildroot.tar.gz
760K aarch64-rootfs.tar.gz
```
As usual with linux containers, the kernel is **not** included.
There is also no need for a bootloader, in the system image.
There is an `init` system available, but normally not used.
It is being provided by busybox, and based on shell scripts.
A container image is provided by importing the rootfs archive:
```Dockerfile
FROM scratch
ADD rootfs.tar /
CMD ["/bin/sh"]
```
The software packages to include are defined in a Makefile:
There are host compilers for most of the available languages.
Such as C/C++, Go, Python, and so on.
This includes support for their language package dependencies.
Such as autotools, CMake, Go modules, etc.
----
Building all the required software is done using [Buildroot](https://buildroot.org/).
The default container image, with [Busybox](https://busybox.net/), is around 1.5 MB.
See [https://github.com/afbjorklund/buildroot4minimalism](https://github.com/afbjorklund/buildroot4minimalism)
Written by Anders F Björklund
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