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?
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Sebastien Chaumat <schaumat@debian.org>
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