Bug#885455: live-boot: Please drop wget from initrd (busybox provides wget)
Hello,
On Wed, 27 Dec 2017, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> The wget binary depends on many libraries. On Debian 9 (stretch) these
> are: libffi6, libgnutls30, libhogweed4, libidn11, libidn2-0, libnettle6,
> libp11-kit0, libpsl5, libtasn1-6, libunistring0. In total 8 megabytes.
> This increases the initramfs size a lot. To save space, use wget from
> busybox instead. Commit 4328832d0 that adds wget does not give a reason
> why busybox's wget is not used. A patch is tested and attached.
The usual reason is for "https" support. Have you tried to use https
URLs in the various places where we can use URLs?
Cheers,
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