On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 9:16 AM Stephen Gallagher <sgall...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 8:43 AM Kevin Kofler <kevin.kof...@chello.at> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> on #fedora-kde, we discussed a huge increase to the size of the KDE live >> image: >> F27 KDE GA: 1656752111 bytes >> F27 KDE Respin: 1744830464 bytes >> F28 KDE Beta: 2069889024 <(206)%20988-9024> bytes >> >> It turns out the LXQt live image is also hit: >> F27 LXQt GA: < 1 GiB >> F28 LXQt Beta: 1.4 GiB >> and I am pretty sure that this is a global issue affecting ALL the live >> images. >> >> While there is certainly more than one cause (e.g., the difference between >> F27 KDE GA and the F27 KDE Respin must be caused by package updates and/or >> added dependencies), it is striking that between a recent F27 KDE Respin >> (which has several of the KDE package updates that are also in the F28 >> Beta) >> and the F28 Beta, there is a size increase of more than 300 MB! >> >> Therefore, my question: >> Is this size increase caused by Annobin? >> >> If not, then WHAT causes this size increase? And can the offending >> change(s) >> be reverted in time for F28 Final? >> >> If yes, then IMHO it is time to enact the contingency plan, i.e.: >> 1. drop the annobin requirement from redhat-rpm-config, AND >> 2. perform an emergency mass rebuild to actually get rid of the bloat. >> >> A global live image size increase of 19%-40% is just not acceptable. >> >> Kevin Kofler >> > > > Have you done a comparison between individual package sizes and count? I > wonder if the problem is that some subset of critical packages gained a > whole lot of dependencies (intentionally or not) or if we're actually > seeing that built binaries are suddenly carrying a huge additional amount > of content. Or even if for some reason the binaries aren't being stripped > properly. > I just checked several packages that compiled the same sources on F26 and F28: * sscg: 4.31% increase in size * nodejs 8: 22% *decrease* in size * libmodulemd: 12% *decrease* in size * sssd-common: 2.58% increase in size * boost-system: 1.00% increase in size Granted, this is just a spot-check, but it seems to me like (on the whole) improvements in the compiler are at least balancing out the increase caused by annobin. It definitely doesn't indicate a 19-40% increase across the board. So I'd guess it's more likely to be dependency bloat or one or two core packages growing significantly.
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