Hi, Am 2. Oktober 2024 22:58:13 MESZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>: >Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> (2024-10-02): >> There's no correlation with partitioning/partition sizes here, I think. > >That's what I thought as well, but that's the biggest, related change >I could think of. > >> I guess there has never been any check in tasksel, if the selected >> tasks fit on the disk? (or the other way around: tasksel does not >> filter out tasks, if don't fit on the disk) > >Well, those two tasks were not enabled automatically until the last few >weeks… (and I've been testing with that particular disk size for many >release cycles), so *something* changed.
There is infact some sort of (incomplete) check for enough disk space in tasksel. In 2007 there was: * Increase the minimum free disk for automatic selection of the desktop task to 3 gb. Needed since the desktop task has grown somewhat, to around 2.5 gb, and since several hundred megabytes are needed for debs in /var (which might be on the same partition). 2.5 gb free is tested to currently work in a standard single-partition layout when installing standard+desktop+laptop, so this leaves some room for future bloat, and for localisation and other tasks. <https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/tasksel/-/commit/7648f17bc2b9486cd033663d6611095a7c858b13> And that logic in tests/desktop controls indeed, if desktop task is pre-selected. Maybe it's time to raise that limit once again? Of course, one might ask, what has changed in the last few weeks: that might be the size of partition (however since you used the small_disk recipe, that should only be marginal), or maybe some dependencies have changed at some point, so that more packages are now included in the default desktop. But either way, at the end we will need to raise the limit above by 1 or 2G anyway, to get this solved IMO. Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
