On June 19, 2023 10:00:32 PM GMT+02:00, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> wrote: >Hi! > >The rumpkernel archive is ridiculously large. It manages to grow so big >mainly by adopting the evil practice of bundling other packages. The >archive contains copies of many GNU utilities, a copy of llvm, and even >a copy of postfix. > >The archive can most probably be pruned a lot further without >consequences, but this is a helpful start. I'm built the Guix >rumpkernel using this pruned archive and it works fine. The same list >of librump* libraries are built and there are no messages in the build >log that suggest things are missing. > And how about the size of runtime binary? >Because the patches are so big I'm only sharing the prune.sh script that >will create some 'prune: ...' commits. > >Greetings, >Janneke >
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