On Mon, 2018-06-11 at 12:11 +0200, fischerm42(a)t-online.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> -----Original-Nachricht-----
> Betreff: Re: Fwd: Re: Core-upgrade-2.21-121
> Datum: 2018-06-11T10:50:17+0200
> Von: "Michael Tremer" <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>
> An: "Matthias Fischer" <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org>, "IPFire: Development-
> List" <development(a)lists.ipfire.org>
> 
> > Yes, good idea. Did you try to extract the update and check how large it is?
> 
> If I remember correctly, extracted size was about 350MB ...
> 
> But we're on Föhr now and my 'Devel' is far, far away...
> 
> Until ~27.6.18 I have no chance to look at his. Family says I'm on vacation
> now... ;-)

Absolutely. I forgot.

I just checked and the extracted image is ~477MB.

@Arne: is this an acceptable size for the update?

> Best,
> Matthias
> 
> 
> > -Michael
> 
> On Fri, 2018-06-08 at 12:55 +0200, Matthias Fischer wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On 08.06.2018 12:01, Michael Tremer wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > ...
> > > > > > Third:
> > > > > > It's BIG. 'core-upgrade-2.21-121.ipfire' has now ~103 MB. I'm hoping
> > > > > > that this won't cause any troubles, too.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Yes, it is huuuuuge. And that *will* cause problems. I have no idea
> > > > > why
> > > > > though. The kernel and firmware themselves shouldn't be that large and
> > > > > there is barely anything else in it. Unless I have added something
> > > > > that>
> > > > > shouldn't be in there.
> > > > 
> > > > As far as I can see its the 'firmware'.
> > > > Just an idea: perhaps we should adjust "$ROOTSPACE" from 'update.sh'
> > > > accordingly?
> > > 
> > > What would that be?
> > 
> > I don't know how much space we will need for this update - I thought of
> > something like this:
> > 
> > ...
> > if [ $ROOTSPACE -lt [HERE_SOME_BIGGER_VALUE_INSTEAD_OF_100000] ]; then
> > ...
> > 
> > Jm2c!
> > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ...
> > > > # Check diskspace on root
> > > > ROOTSPACE=`df / -Pk | sed "s| * | |g" | cut -d" " -f4 | tail -n 1`
> > > > 
> > > > if [ $ROOTSPACE -lt 100000 ]; then
> > > > 	exit_with_error "ERROR cannot update because not enough free
> > > > space on
> > > > root." 2
> > > > 	exit 2
> > > > fi
> > > > ...
> > 
> > Best,
> > Matthias
> 
>