On 2015-02-24 Andreas Metzler <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-02-24 Uwe Storbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > the installed size of package exim4-daemon-light on amd64 has > > increased from 1287 to 3268 between versions 4.84-7 and 4.84-8 > > without any apparent reason in the changelog: > [...] > > The file size of the exim4 binary has more than tripled between > > the two package versions: > > -rwsr-xr-x root/root 1031104 2015-02-07 16:40 ./usr/sbin/exim4 > > -rwsr-xr-x root/root 3124160 2015-02-17 18:45 ./usr/sbin/exim4 > [...]
> you are right, and it is even reproducible. The only explanation I can > think of is that some part of the toolchain runs amok after addition > of the two patches. Stranger and stranger: (sid-AMD64)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/EXIM4/exim-4.84$ du -s b-*/*/exim debian/*/usr/sbin/exim4 3760 b-exim4-daemon-heavy/build-Linux-x86_64/exim 3312 b-exim4-daemon-light/build-Linux-x86_64/exim 1132 debian/exim4-daemon-heavy/usr/sbin/exim4 1008 debian/exim4-daemon-light/usr/sbin/exim4 (sid-AMD64)ametzler@argenau:/tmp/EXIM4/exim-4.84$ ls -lhsk b-*/*/exim debian/*/usr/sbin/exim4 3.7M -rwxrwxr-x 1 ametzler ametzler 3.7M Feb 28 18:25 b-exim4-daemon-heavy/build-Linux-x86_64/exim 3.3M -rwxrwxr-x 1 ametzler ametzler 5.3M Feb 28 18:25 b-exim4-daemon-light/build-Linux-x86_64/exim 1.2M -rwsr-xr-x 1 ametzler ametzler 1.2M Feb 28 18:25 debian/exim4-daemon-heavy/usr/sbin/exim4 1008K -rwsr-xr-x 1 ametzler ametzler 3.0M Feb 28 18:25 debian/exim4-daemon-light/usr/sbin/exim4 The build generates a sparse file, which actually only takes up about 1 MB of space. However, when we run the file through dpkg sparseness is lost. cu Andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
