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Bug 2151497 (F38Serverbootx86_64Oversize) - Fedora 38: Server boot x86_64 image exceeds maximum size
Summary: Fedora 38: Server boot x86_64 image exceeds maximum size
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: F38Serverbootx86_64Oversize
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: distribution
Version: 38
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Boy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard: AcceptedBlocker
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Blocks: FedoraOversizeTracker F38BetaBlocker F38FinalBlocker
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Reported: 2022-12-07 11:17 UTC by Fedora QA Tools SIG
Modified: 2023-02-14 07:10 UTC (History)
23 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2023-02-14 07:10:10 UTC
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Description Fedora QA Tools SIG 2022-12-07 11:17:20 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20221207.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20221207.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20221207.n.0 is 736935936 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200. Canonical maximum sizes can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/38/Spins and https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/38/ReleaseBlocking . This check is run by the 'relval' tool, which has its own list of maximum sizes derived from those pages. If the maximum size used for this comparison is wrong, please add a comment and file a bug against relval at https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/relval/issues and it will be corrected. If you believe the canonical maximum size for an image should be changed, please follow the appropriate process before filing a relval bug.
Comment 1 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2022-12-10 11:02:06 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20221210.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20221210.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20221210.n.0 is 738646016 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2022-12-14 17:47:49 UTC 
This is resolved by the recent dracut changes, 20221214.n.0 image is undersize.
Comment 3 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2022-12-23 10:16:52 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20221223.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20221223.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20221223.n.0 is 743749632 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2022-12-23 18:20:59 UTC 
Most of the size gain here happened between 1219.n.0 and 1220.n.0. It doesn't seem to be a package set change, both images had 808 packages. Investigating now.
Comment 5 Adam Williamson 2022-12-23 18:48:27 UTC 
Huh. So most of the change there seems to come down to...the kernel. The kernel went from 6.1.0-65.fc38 to a 6.2.0-0.rc0.20221219git build. The 6.2.0 kernel itself (vmlinuz) is 2.4MB bigger: 15.2MB compared to 12.8MB. The modules directory is 8.4MB bigger on 6.2.0: 92.3MB compared to 83.9MB.

Justin, can you see why 6.2.0 seems significantly larger than 6.1.0? Is there anything we can trim, at package level or if necessary only in the installer environment? Thanks!
Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2022-12-23 19:02:27 UTC 
There was another 5MB increase between 20221220.n.0 and 20221221.n.0 which seems to be due to webkitgtk (come on down, again). 20221220.n.0 had /usr/lib64/libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0.4.0 size 56M and /usr/lib64/libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1.so.0.3.1 size 23M; 20221221.n.0 has /usr/lib64/libwebkit2gtk-4.1.so.0.5.0 size 70M and /usr/lib64/libjavascriptcoregtk-4.1.so.0.3.2 size 26M. Those are uncompressed sizes, I guess compressed it only makes a 5M difference.

mcatanzaro, any idea why these files got much bigger between webkitgtk-2.39.2-7.fc38 and webkitgtk-2.39.3-3.fc38?
Comment 7 Peter Boy 2022-12-23 19:51:44 UTC 
Just to confirm, we have not made any changes to the installation media, yet (our current discussion is about changes for 39).
Comment 8 Michael Catanzaro 2022-12-23 22:53:52 UTC 
(In reply to Adam Williamson from comment #6)
> mcatanzaro, any idea why these files got much bigger between
> webkitgtk-2.39.2-7.fc38 and webkitgtk-2.39.3-3.fc38?

Not really. I disabled LTO due to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249368. That's the most significant change that I can think of; could it really make that big of a difference? It's only a few weeks of commits between 2.39.2 vs. 2.39.3, so not a lot of time for too much to change.
Comment 9 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2023-01-07 10:28:57 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20230107.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20230107.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20230107.n.0 is 746446848 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 10 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2023-01-11 11:01:11 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20230111.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20230111.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20230111.n.0 is 746342400 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 11 Ben Cotton 2023-01-12 17:06:46 UTC 
Setting AcceptedBlocker as oversize bugs are considered automatic blockers.
Comment 12 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2023-01-22 00:59:46 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20230121.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20230121.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20230121.n.0 is 758908928 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 13 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2023-01-26 10:08:56 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20230126.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20230126.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20230126.n.0 is 754368512 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 14 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2023-02-02 10:18:31 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20230202.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20230202.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20230202.n.0 is 755822592 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 15 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2023-02-05 10:03:47 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20230205.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20230205.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20230205.n.0 is 757651456 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 16 Ben Cotton 2023-02-07 15:11:37 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 38 development cycle.
Changing version to 38.
Comment 17 Fedora QA Tools SIG 2023-02-08 09:51:04 UTC 
Server boot x86_64 image https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/rawhide/Fedora-Rawhide-20230208.n.0/compose/Server/x86_64/iso/Fedora-Server-netinst-x86_64-Rawhide-20230208.n.0.iso from compose Fedora-Rawhide-20230208.n.0 is 757688320 bytes, exceeding the maximum size 734003200.
Comment 18 Adam Williamson 2023-02-14 07:10:10 UTC 
Today's is 718012416 , back under size again for now, thanks to the linux-firmware changes.
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