Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > GnuPG has for a while now the configure switch --enable-minimal, which builds > a gnupg with as few options enabled as possible. I was wondering if using this > configure switch for the gnupg-udeb would make sense for you - I remember that > size was an issue, not sure if that's still a relevant concern. I tried to > rebuild gnupg-udeb with --enable-minimal, and that reduces the size from 817K > to 568K; so not dramatic but still significant. I didn't really test it > though, so it may be that the installer actually needs more options than this. > > So my question to you is: would a size saving in this order be a significant > improvement for the installer? If so, what minimum functionality would be > required from gnupg-udeb? I can then explore this further, but would like to > be sure that it would be actually useful. > > BTW, gpgv is already a minimal tool, so the switch has no relevant effect > there. gnupg-udeb is only used by partman-crypto-loop, which uses it to generate a symmetric key file as follows: gpg --batch --no-options --no-random-seed-file --no-default-keyring \ --keyring /dev/null --passphrase-fd 3 --symmetric -a Reducing the size of this part of the installer saves space on the netinst and busnesscard CDs, so is desirable. If gpg had a --disable-public-key-crypto, I'd say build it with that. ;) -- see shy jo
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