cloud image file shrunk from 1.4G to 1G in vivid

Bug #1414062 reported by Scott Moser
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cloud-images
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

the cloud images have traditionally had a 1.4G filesystem.
it seems that that has recently shrunk to 1G. that, along with some general bloat has caused failure of maas image build process that is being addressed at https://code.launchpad.net/~rcj/maas-images/ppc64el/+merge/243667 .

i'm not sure what the reason was for shrinking the filesystme in the .tar.gz files.

reproduce / showing it is easy:
$ mirror=http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/daily/server
$ for r in trusty utopic vivid; do wget $mirror/$r/current/$r-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz; done
$ for i in *.tar.gz; do echo === $i ==; tar -tvzf $i | grep .img$ ; done
=== trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz ==
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1476395008 2015-01-23 00:43 trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
=== utopic-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz ==
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1476395008 2015-01-22 03:34 utopic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
=== vivid-server-cloudimg-amd64.tar.gz ==
-rw-r--r-- root/root 995098624 2015-01-23 02:19 vivid-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

i put a fix for maas-images to resize the image up for some working space and then set it to 1400M before publishing at
 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~maas-images-maintainers/maas-images/maas-ephemerals/revision/178

this is somewhat a hack fix as i do arbitrarily set '1400M'.

Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
affects: ubuntu → uec-live-build
Changed in uec-live-build:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Mathew Hodson (mhodson)
affects: uec-live-build → cloud-images
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