Snappy image size

[Manik Taneja]

Much appreciated Steve!

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Steve Langasek <
steve.langasek at canonical.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:21:48PM -0300, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:35:40PM -0300, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:40:34PM -0700, Manik Taneja wrote:
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > Just wondering as to why is there such a big difference between the
> images
> > > > for amd64 vs armhf platforms-
>
> > > > [image: Inline image 1]
> > > > source <http://releases.ubuntu.com/vivid/>
>
> > > > Also, what's the difference between the 2 images for the same
> platform?
>
> > > amd64/grub uses gpt and 5 partitions while the armhf/uboot variant is
> > > regular dos partitions and the number is 4.
>
> > I just noticed you pasted an image which I failed to see from my MUA
> > (mutt). If it's just due to size, it's because of what asac mentions.
>
> The issue he was asking about is that there are two images shown each for
> amd64 and armhf.  There is no difference between the two except for the
> filename; one is 'armhf+bbb', the other is 'armhf-bbb', and one is a
> symlink
> to the other on the server.  The reason we have both names is that we had
> pushed one of these names as the URL to publish on the website, then
> realized that the name we'd pushed was inconsistent with the overall naming
> scheme on releases.ubuntu.com.
>
> We at some point can drop the compatibility symlink, but only once the
> links
> are updated on the ubuntu.com website.
>
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