Daniel McIlvaney

Need more testing for locales, will leave them enabled in configs for now.

> Mariner doesn't support multilib. Do we know why we have this? Running `depsearch` I see mariadb-connector-c openblas I'll look into these, see if this is actually needed. These cascade...

Did some digging, I think we can indeed drop this completely.

https://dev.azure.com/mariner-org/mariner/_build/results?buildId=547372&view=results

Also done here: https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/pull/8705#issuecomment-2038433499, results the same. Assessment of epoch handling inside our build tools: ### Setup I created a test environment with the following setup: - dedicated `./SPECS-TEST` folder...

New dracut with `core-efi.json`:  

Old dracut:  

`gawk` is VERY large for what it is, this adds ~4MB to the image. Given we are actively trying to minimize our images we need to fix `gawk` first.

superseded by https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux/pull/9210

I believe I sent this to m40 back in Jan as an alternative approach: ```diff diff --git a/toolkit/scripts/toolchain.mk b/toolkit/scripts/toolchain.mk index 15b6c8e7a..168bc3f63 100644 --- a/toolkit/scripts/toolchain.mk +++ b/toolkit/scripts/toolchain.mk @@ -191,7 +191,10 @@...