https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3082 - proposal to increase aarch64 netinst image size limit to 1G
Hey folks! Sorry, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to send this through the server list first, it was purely an oversight. I've sent a ticket to FESCo:
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3082
proposing we bump the max size of the aarch64 Server netinst image (which is release-blocking) from 700M to 1G, as the image is oversize for F39 final and the limit really doesn't seem to make any sense any more. A detailed justification is in the ticket. If you have passionate opinions on this, please read the ticket and comment. Thanks :)
The ticket says:
The 700M size limit is based on the size of a CD. … I frankly doubt anybody is writing any of our installer images to CDs any more, …
We've stuck to it for a long time as a way to avoid bloat in the installer environment, but I think we're at the point where it's becoming unrealistically difficult to keep the size under 700M even without anything obviously identifiable as "bloat", due to the ever-ongoing increase in the size of linux-firmware.
The first argument is - or was - about those old times ..
Our current issue is to keep the installer image(s) as small as possible, specifically to enable people in regions with a weak internet connection to use our software as smoothly as possible. And if we don't limit our horizons to the U.S., Europe, and some highly developed regions in Asia, that's a serious issue.
Nevertheless, this should not block release 39. So I would propose to make an exception for aarch64 architecture.
And that doesn't contradict our reasons for the size restriction now. Suitable aarch64 hardware is currently so expensive that it won't be used there anyway.
Best Peter
Am 14.10.2023 um 23:30 schrieb Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org:
Hey folks! Sorry, I don't know why it didn't occur to me to send this through the server list first, it was purely an oversight. I've sent a ticket to FESCo:
https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/3082
proposing we bump the max size of the aarch64 Server netinst image (which is release-blocking) from 700M to 1G, as the image is oversize for F39 final and the limit really doesn't seem to make any sense any more. A detailed justification is in the ticket. If you have passionate opinions on this, please read the ticket and comment. Thanks :) -- Adam Williamson (he/him/his) Fedora QA Fedora Chat: @adamwill:fedora.im | Mastodon: @adamw@fosstodon.org https://www.happyassassin.net
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