Hi folks! Sorry I missed the meeting last week. Just wanted to kick off
a mailing list topic for this. As briefly discussed at the meeting, the
aarch64 server netinst image is over its 'maximum size', and this is a
release-blocking bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2352679
we can either try and figure out why it got bigger and squish it back
down again, or just bump the policy maximum size. We're generally more
relaxed about maximum sizes these days since they're not so tied to
optical media any more and USB sticks are plentiful and cheap. The
current policy max is 1GB, and I don't remember the last time I saw a
1GB USB stick, so bumping to say 2GB probably wouldn't cause any
*practical* issues.
Still, it's nice to have these maximums so we catch any cases where
images are unnecessarily getting bigger. I do have a process for
figuring out what's taking up space on an image and I'll try to run
through that and post results on the bug later. These days, it
*usually* turns out to be linux-firmware getting bigger; various OEMs
are constantly dumping large blobs into linux-firmware these days,
something we can do little about :/
Yes, that would have been my guess, there's been quite a few qcom firmwares added recently, and sadly they're tending towards device/vendor specific signed versions rather than SoC specific variants like many other vendors do.
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