Re: ping on CD would not take up any additional space
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On 03/24/2007 08:40 AM, Richard Atterer wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:46:14PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
>> ping is not exactly the smallest of the programs (~30K), and I
>> really trust d-i team judgement, I was just imagining that if it is
>> possible to have ping (which means that space and other things are not a
>> problem), we should add it for our users.
>
> There is _no_ reason to exclude ping because of concerns about its size!!
>
> I have just compiled the udebs both without and with ping. Adding ping
> makes the busybox binary larger by 1568 BYTES or 800 BYTES depending on the
> udeb:
> busybox binary size: with ping:
> busybox-floppy-udeb/bin/busybox 74404 75972
> busybox-udeb/bin/busybox 201228 202028
>
> In the packed udeb, the difference is a whopping 678 bytes or 472 bytes:
>
> .udeb size: with ping:
> busybox-floppy-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 45920 46598
> busybox-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 118896 119368
>
> BTW, when the .udeb is put on a CD, the ISO9660 filesystem will always
> round up the required space to the next multiple of 2 kBytes. As it
> happens, the addition of ping makes no difference at all when this is
> considered:
> .udeb 2k CD blocks: with ping:
> busybox-floppy-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 23 23
> busybox-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 59 59
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
That's great. Thanks for the nice report. :-)
Now, the question would be if it is enough to convince Frans
and d-i team to add ping back and if there is anything that we can
do to help on this.
Kind regards,
- --
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
"Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!"
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