Please build minimized images in a 1GiB image

Bug #1739418 reported by Balint Reczey
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Balint Reczey
Xenial
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

[Impact]

 * Without the fix the initial size of the image is ~2.2GiB, even for minimized images. Changing it to 1GiB allows detecting an increase in packages' installed installed size in case they would exceed this smaller limit.
 * Minimized images are generated for Xenial, too, and having this limit in effect may help keeping images small.

[Test Case]

 * Generate all minimized an non-minimized images to see that all the builds still succeed.

[Regression Potential]

 * Since partitions images are expanded to pre-defined sizes at the end of image generation this change should not change the resulting image sizes where having free space is needed at run-time.
 * The change may break building images, hence the tests in the Test Cases section.
 * The change is tested extensively in Bionic

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Balint Reczey (rbalint)
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → In Progress
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Xenial):
assignee: nobody → Balint Reczey (rbalint)
Revision history for this message
Robert C Jennings (rcj) wrote :

Testing must include builds of cloud and MAAS images

Balint Reczey (rbalint)
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: In Progress → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Revision history for this message
Balint Reczey (rbalint) wrote :

We discussed the change with Steve Langasek again and agreed that the initial image should not be changed and the size of the final images produced by livecd-rootfs should be monitored.
The change already made in trunk will be reverted soon.

Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Won't Fix
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu Xenial):
assignee: Balint Reczey (rbalint) → nobody
Changed in livecd-rootfs (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Balint Reczey (rbalint)
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