Package: upx-ucl Version: 3.00-1 Severity: normal I compress kernels for a project I work with and I noticed that v3.00 compresses worse than v2.03 (~5k worse)
/usr/src/linux$ upx-ucl -f -9 bzImage Ultimate Packer for eXecutables Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 UPX 3.00 Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser Apr 27th 2007 File size Ratio Format Name -------------------- ------ ----------- ----------- 908856 -> 855959 94.18% bvmlinuz/386 bzImage Packed 1 file. /usr/src/linux$ cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage bzImage /usr/src/linux$ upx-ucl -f -9 bzImage Ultimate Packer for eXecutables Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006 UPX 2.03 Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser Nov 7th 2006 File size Ratio Format Name -------------------- ------ ----------- ----------- 908856 -> 850986 93.63% bvmlinuz/386 bzImage Packed 1 file. /usr/src/linux$ -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.20 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages upx-ucl depends on: ii libc6 2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070609-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070609-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libucl1 1.03-2 Portable compression library - run ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime upx-ucl recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]