Re: f33 f34 rpm changes
On Fri, Mar 19 2021 at 08:03:33 AM -0400, Chuck Anderson
<cra(a)alum.wpi.edu> wrote:
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:39:41AM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> size in bytes
> 2049490944 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-33-1.2.iso
> 2001469440 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34_Beta-1.3.iso
(What's with all the 4s and 9s in the file sizes?)
34 Beta 1.2 was:
1999503360 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-34_Beta-1.2.iso
I tested 34 Beta 1.2 on a 2000000000 byte capacity USB stick. I
guess I'll have to find a 2GiB USB or waste a 4G stick for 1.3.
The Release-Blocking Deliverables page specifies the max image size
as 2.1 GB, which means 2100000000 bytes? Why 2.1 and not 2.0?
It's 2.1 GB because last release cycle we exceeded 2.0 GB and didn't
want to remove anything. :P Realistically you're indeed going to need a
4 GB stick unfortunately, unless we can identify something really big
that can be removed, which is doubtful. Package install footprints tend
to grow over time and when we were strict on the size requirement in
the past it eventually led to extreme measures that we don't want to
repeat, e.g. shrinking user help images to try to get help packages
smaller.
Anyway we didn't increase the size limit to 4.0 GB because we still
want to keep an eye on the image size and ensure it's not increasing
too quickly. The difference between 2.1 GB and 4.0 GB may be nothing to
someone with a 2 GB USB stick and a fast internet connection, but to
someone with a slow connection it's huge.
It is confusing that both GB (decimal) and MiB (binary) are used on
that page:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/34/ReleaseBlocking
Yeah that's not great. We shouldn't switch between units.
Michael