Control: reassign -1 debian-kernel-handbook 1.0.21 Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: retitle -1 debian-kernel-handbook: Paragraph 4.5.1.1. Disk space requirements needs an update (from 2018 numbers)? On Thursday, 11 May 2023 14:33:40 CEST Claude Heiland-Allen wrote: > I freed up more space, but even with 53GB available it ran out. > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > > The build process to use a reasonable amount of space, > perhaps by cleaning up artifacts after each output deb > before starting to build the next output deb. > > Documentation of the required amount of disk space would be nice. The kernel is a big package and if you don't restrict what's getting build via f.e. build profiles then it will need a lot of space. Especially debug packages can get rather large. But it could be that the numbers mentioned in the debian-kernel-handbook are a bit too optimistic. "Building binary packages for a single kernel flavour requires up to 15 GB space" could be technically correct, but unless you're 'deep' into Debian kernel building, you likely won't spot the importance of the chosen words. IOW: newbies likely assume they need 15GB of disk space, while that's only true in specific circumstances (as described in 4.5.5).
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