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Re: Upx to compress bzimages?



Le mer 29/01/2003 à 16:31, Petter Reinholdtsen a écrit :
> I decided to check out Upx after finding the folling in
> debian-isntaller/doc/README:
> 
>   Upx can compress bzimages. They're still bootable, and up to 100k
>   might be saved this way. http://upx.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I checked, and the version in Sid (1.24) is only able to compress ELF
> binaries.  When I tried it on the kernel, it printed this:
> 
>   # upx tmp/vmlinuz
>                        Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
>            Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
>   UPX 1.24         Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & Laszlo Molnar         Nov 7th 2002
> 
>           File size         Ratio      Format      Name
>      --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
>   upx: tmp/vmlinuz: UnknownExecutableFormatException
> 
>   Packed 0 files.
>   #

You must use the OLD version of upx. See :
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=666709&group_id=2331&atid=352331

> 
> I tried packing the programs in bin/ and usr/bin/, but this only made
> the initrd.gz files larger.
> 
> Have anyone used upx successfully with d-i?
-- 
Sebastien Chaumat <schaumat@debian.org>



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