Bug#883802: marked as done (debian-installer-netboot-images: Duplicate initrd.gz (40 MB))
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has caused the Debian Bug report #883802,
regarding debian-installer-netboot-images: Duplicate initrd.gz (40 MB)
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Package: debian-installer-netboot-images
Severity: normal
Tags: d-i
Debian Install System Team,
Looking at Debian Installer Buster Alpha 2 netinst:
debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso
$ ls -l install.amd/*/initrd.gz
-r--r--r-- 2 root root 40077490 Dec 5 09:33 install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz
-r--r--r-- 2 root root 40077490 Dec 5 09:33 install.amd/xen/initrd.gz
$ md5sum install.amd/*/initrd.gz
a369d078180551a2e53cab0c39e4a6c4 install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz
a369d078180551a2e53cab0c39e4a6c4 install.amd/xen/initrd.gz
netinst images are roughly 300 MB, so each of these is > 10%.
Should one of these be replaced with a symlink?
By the way, these files are also duplicated in pre-Buster and
non-netinst images.
Thank you!
Dan
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Hello,
On Thu, 07 Dec 2017, Daniel Lewart wrote:
> Looking at Debian Installer Buster Alpha 2 netinst:
> debian-buster-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso
>
> $ ls -l install.amd/*/initrd.gz
> -r--r--r-- 2 root root 40077490 Dec 5 09:33 install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz
> -r--r--r-- 2 root root 40077490 Dec 5 09:33 install.amd/xen/initrd.gz
>
> $ md5sum install.amd/*/initrd.gz
> a369d078180551a2e53cab0c39e4a6c4 install.amd/gtk/initrd.gz
> a369d078180551a2e53cab0c39e4a6c4 install.amd/xen/initrd.gz
> netinst images are roughly 300 MB, so each of these is > 10%.
>
> Should one of these be replaced with a symlink?
They already are:
rhertzog@nas:/srv/debian/mirror/dists/buster/main/installer-amd64/current/images/cdrom$ ls -al {gtk,xen}/initrd.gz
-rw-r--r-- 2 rhertzog rhertzog 40077490 déc. 4 08:25 gtk/initrd.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 2 rhertzog rhertzog 16 déc. 4 08:25 xen/initrd.gz -> ../gtk/initrd.gz
But the symlink is not a concept supported in ISO filesystem. In practice they
are effectively hardlinked (see the "2" count in your output) so there is no
space wasted.
In other words, there's no bug and there's nothing to fix. Closing the ticket.
Cheers,
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