Re: modutils-udeb

[David Whedon <dwhedon@gordian.com>]

all fixed, I should learn to read the build depends (didn't have the pic
libraries installed)

-David
Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:01:10PM -0800 wrote:
> [ David and are talking about why his builds seem so much bigger.. ]
> 
> David Whedon wrote:
> > wierd, I'm not sure: for reference, this is my most recent one:
> > System stats
> > ------------
> > Installed udebs: anna main-menu cdebconf-udeb udpkg busybox-udeb ash-udeb
> > choose-mirror wget-retriever niccfg-manual netcfg-static netkit-tiny-udeb
> > nic-modules-2.4.0-di isa-pnp-modules-2.4.0-di modutils-udeb 
> > Total system size: 2.3M
> > Compresses to: 830k
> > Single Floppy kernel must be less than: ~570k
> 
> 2.3M is HUGE. Does mklibs say it is making "small lib from .." 3
> times when you build? For slang, libm, and libc. I'll hazard a guess
> that you don't have slang-pic installed.. Here are my stats:
> 
> Installed udebs: anna main-menu cdebconf-udeb udpkg busybox-udeb ash-udeb choose-mirror wget-retriever niccfg-manual netcfg-static netkit-tiny-udeb nic-modules-2.4.0-di isa-pnp-modules-2.4.0-di modutils-basic
> Total system size: 1.6M
> Compresses to: 660k
> Single Floppy kernel must be less than: ~740k
> 
> > Maybe that will help, the fuzz factor you had to add teh the initrd size is
> > puzzlign too.
> 
> I wonder if you'll start seeing the fuzz factor issue when you fix your
> library reduction problem ...
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo