Skip to content

GitLab

  • Menu
Projects Groups Snippets
  • Help
    • Help
    • Support
    • Community forum
    • Submit feedback
  • Sign in
  • A archiso
  • Project information
    • Project information
    • Activity
    • Labels
    • Members
  • Repository
    • Repository
    • Files
    • Commits
    • Branches
    • Tags
    • Contributors
    • Graph
    • Compare
    • Locked Files
  • Issues 40
    • Issues 40
    • List
    • Boards
    • Service Desk
    • Milestones
    • Iterations
  • Merge requests 10
    • Merge requests 10
  • CI/CD
    • CI/CD
    • Pipelines
    • Jobs
    • Schedules
    • Test Cases
  • Deployments
    • Deployments
    • Releases
  • Activity
  • Graph
  • Create a new issue
  • Jobs
  • Commits
  • Issue Boards
Collapse sidebar
  • Arch Linux
  • archiso
  • Issues
  • #144
Closed
Open
Created Jul 27, 2021 by nl6720@nl6720Developer0 of 2 tasks completed0/2 tasks

The releng ISO is aproaching a size where it will not fit a CD anymore

The releng ISO keeps getting bigger by the day.

  • archlinux-2021.07.01-x86_64.iso is 779.3 MiB
  • archlinux-2021.08.01-x86_64.iso is 831.3 MiB

This is mostly because the packages in the rootfs image are getting bigger (more firmware in linux-firmare, linux moving from xz to zstd compressed modules, general bloat accumulation, etc.).

The maximum size of a CD is 900 MiB (the capacity of CDs unlike DVDs & BDs is specified in MiB). And we're gradually approaching this limit.

When the ISO exceeds CD size some documentation will need to be adjusted to say "DVD":

  • iso_application in configs/releng/profiledef.sh.
  • Release Info in https://archlinux.org/download/

Alternatively, they could be reworded to not mention the specific disc type at all. E.g., something like:

  • iso_application="Arch Linux Live/Rescue environment"
  • "The image can be burned to an optical disc"
Edited Aug 22, 2021 by nl6720
To upload designs, you'll need to enable LFS and have an admin enable hashed storage. More information
Assignee
Assign to
Time tracking