Default image target size [Was:Re: Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2012-06-18)]

[Jon Ciesla]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 13:32 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 17:26 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> >> Lennart Poettering <mzerqung <at> 0pointer.de> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > For those too lazy to calculate the difference between 1 GB and 1 GiB: 1
>> >> > GB equals 953 MiB. We hence should probably stick to to 950 MiB as new
>> >> > target image size.
>> >>
>> >> To avoid confusion over units or rounding/truncation (1 GB isn't *exactly* 953
>> >> MiB, for example), the QA size tests are expressed in bytes -  see
>> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_Mediakit_ISO_Size .
>> >
>> > FWIW, in the Deliverables SOP I've been working on for a bit -
>> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adamwill/Draft_releng_SOP_deliverables - I went with KiB, at least so far.
>> >
>> > (The SOP is still under heavy revision, btw.)
>>
>> Not sure if it's too early, but keep in mind that ARM images will have
>> utterly difference size constraints.
>
> Well, as I'm writing the SOP ARM is still not a primary arch and so it's
> not considered at all in that draft. If you read it, it mentions
> specifically the stuff that's delivered as part of the primary arch
> release and makes no mention of non-primary arch images.

I did, and that's entirely appropriate, I just wanted to plant the seed.

-J

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