Karen Tung wrote: > I am fixing bug 7191, which deals with the pkg.zlib running out of space > when people are creating their own image with more packages than > what the Live CD has. > > Currently, pkg.zlib is a UFS archive, and we estimate the size needed > for this archive using "du -sk", and then, add 10% of overhead to > this value. Apparently, 10% overhead is not enough, and we had > just been lucky so far that it worked. Sanjay and I did some experiement > and found that probably 20% is better. While I can make the change > to put 20% there to get rid of the problem, I think a better fix is > to get rid of the pkg.zlib altogether. We introduced pkg.zlib > as a fix for bug 2716 to get around the problem with symlinks > that are too long. Now that the real cause of the bad symlinks is going to > be fixed (6807009) in snv_111, I think it is best to get rid of pkg.zlib. > > The question is, is this better to do for 2009.06 or the next release? >
I'd rather it was done sooner than later. Should be pretty low-risk since we're just reverting a previous change. Dave
