Hi folks, It's been several years now since the last time the Ubuntu desktop fit on a CD and we raised the limit for oversized images. However, while we had a roadmap for a few cycles for how to raise the limit gradually to keep healthy pressure in place, we've gone past the end of that and daily images have been reporting as "oversized" for quite a while now.
This generates daily emails to members of the release team and cdimage team,
which then basically are seeing no follow-up because we know nobody cares
about these limits but no one has set new ones.
I've finally gone ahead and bumped the limit on Ubuntu desktop images,
shortly before xenial release, to 2GB for a minimally-sized USB stick; this
gives us a new limit that I think we will care about, while also leaving us
headroom so we're not constantly fighting it back down to the line (current
images are ~1.4GB).
But Ubuntu Desktop is not the only image that's oversized according to the
stated limits - there are lots of others (see attached mail). As all of
these images have been released with 16.04, it's clear that these limits
aren't important to the owners of those products either.
Can I ask flavor leads to please reply to this email and answer two
questions:
- What should the size limit be for your images, for 16.04 and later?
- Do you want to be subscribed to the email notifications of oversized
images - and if so, what address?
For maintainability purposes, it would be helpful if we didn't have too many
different per-flavor image limits. I'd recommend using one of the limits
already present in our checks:
850MB
950MB
1GiB (not GB - technically this means it doesn't fit on a 1GB USB stick,
but who has 1GB USB sticks anymore?)
1224MiB (? should probably be made 1.2GiB...)
1.46GB (mini DVD)
2GB (== 2GB USB stick)
DVD (4590208KiB)
OTOH those are some pretty big jumps in between, so if a flavor wanted to
scale in, say, 100MB or 200MB increments, that would probably be ok... but
please, let's not keep mixing MiB and MB everywhere :)
Thanks,
--
Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/
[email protected] [email protected]
--- Begin Message ---This is a daily health check report on all CD images. If you have any questions, contact Colin Watson <[email protected]>. ubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64+mac.iso oversized by 19496960 bytes (1093238784) ubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 3997696 bytes (1077739520) ubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 6127616 bytes (1079869440) ubuntu-server/daily: yakkety-server-powerpc.iso oversized by 10481664 bytes (747147264) kubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 217645056 bytes (1501102080) kubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 238796800 bytes (1522253824) mythbuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 414179328 bytes (1150844928) mythbuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 347463680 bytes (1084129280) mythbuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 686612480 bytes (1423278080) mythbuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 609017856 bytes (1345683456) lubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64+mac.iso oversized by 53960704 bytes (790626304) lubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 56057856 bytes (792723456) lubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 45572096 bytes (782237696) lubuntu/daily-live: trusty-desktop-powerpc.iso oversized by 113637376 bytes (850302976) lubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 145186816 bytes (881852416) lubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 147283968 bytes (883949568) lubuntu/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-powerpc.iso oversized by 238964736 bytes (975630336) lubuntu/daily: trusty-alternate-amd64+mac.iso oversized by 25649152 bytes (762314752) lubuntu/daily: yakkety-alternate-amd64.iso oversized by 20406272 bytes (757071872) lubuntu/daily: yakkety-alternate-i386.iso oversized by 18309120 bytes (754974720) lubuntu/daily: yakkety-alternate-powerpc.iso oversized by 56328192 bytes (792993792) ubuntu-gnome/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 173490176 bytes (1247232000) ubuntu-gnome/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 206749696 bytes (1280491520) ubuntu-mate/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 562397184 bytes (1636139008) ubuntu-mate/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 572604416 bytes (1646346240) ubuntu-mate/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-powerpc.iso oversized by 678367232 bytes (1752109056) ubuntukylin/daily-live: trusty-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 521625600 bytes (1258291200) ubuntukylin/daily-live: trusty-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 504848384 bytes (1241513984) ubuntukylin/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-amd64.iso oversized by 803823616 bytes (1540489216) ubuntukylin/daily-live: yakkety-desktop-i386.iso oversized by 831152128 bytes (1567817728)
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