The "What should be the boot partition size (in MB)?" advanced option cause confusion
excerpt of chat from #porting:
tipzteam > (016622) [16:33:03] (native) % cd /mnt/rootfs_lenovo-pb1770m; cp -a bin root srv run var tmp boot etc sys sbin usr dev proc opt lib media mnt /mnt/install/
tipzteam > cp: write error: No space left on device
tipzteam > cp: write error: No space left on device
harutora > after I set the boot partition to 128MB, I choose xfce4 and it can build success.
harutora > [18:04:14] What should be the boot partition size (in MB)?
harutora > [18:04:14] Boot size [32]: 128
harutora > use pmbootstrap init
harutora > I finally know it's not for "phone boot partition"
afontain > I knew there was going to be issues with those additional options!
harutora > so what recommend size for this?
afontan > you really shouldn't change it unless it breaks
tipzteam > oh ok please mention in wiki
harutora > yes, I have problem since I changed it...XD
afontain > the default is to calculate the required size. It should just work
afontain > if it doesn't, then it's a bug
afontain > (quoting "please mention it in the wiki") if you ask me, we just should not have the option
tipzteam > totally aggreed
tipzteam > maybe add a flag to enable it
tipzteam > like --custom-image-size
tipzteam > or something
tipzteam > omg that works perfectly
harutora > okok, because of "boot partition size" we'll think about the phone size limitation.
Maybe once we fix the zfs issue (#1916 (closed)), we could remove the option again? That would be the prefered course of action IMO. If we don't, let's at least hide it better (for example just have it in pmbootstrap config
)? Or at the very least, we should reword the message and add a warning.