Package: firmware-b43-installer
Version: 1:019-2
Severity: minor
SSIA. The installation process first downloads a 13MB tarball into /tmp
and then uncompresses the entirety into /tmp. 50MB may not be that much
space on a desktop or server, but for smaller embedded devices that could
completely exhaust their memory.
The following patch takes care of the worst of the issue:
--- ./var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43-installer.postinst.orig 2015-04-05
19:21:07.000000000 -0700
+++ ./var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43-installer.postinst 2016-03-23
18:44:53.000000000 -0700
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
rm -rf /lib/firmware/b43
fi
fi
-tar xvjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
+tar xvjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o
cd broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux
b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
rm -rf $tmp
Note this will need a bit of adjustment if #810161 is applied.
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