On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just noticed that the last ffmpeg package is much bigger than the old > one (13MB vs 4MB). > Looking more in depth in the two packages, it looks like it is all the > static libraries which are much bigger now : > -rw-r--r-- root/root 4838852 2007-12-05 03:43 usr/lib/libavcodec.a > -rw-r--r-- root/root 20604500 2008-06-26 03:12 usr/lib/libavcodec.a > > Isn't this only because the new one is not stripped? > > Here is how it is detected by file : > $ file -biz /usr/lib/libavcodec.a > application/x-archive > > So could this be an old pacman 3.1 regression ? > http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=721ceee1e2c9b18425d84cf39f6541b2f04072b3 > > Maybe this code also needs to handle x-archive. > > $ file -iz /usr/lib/* | grep x-archive | wc -l > 366 > > $ file -iz /usr/lib/*.a | grep x-archive | wc -l > 366 > > $ file -iz /usr/lib/*.a | grep -v x-archive > /usr/lib/libcurses.a: application/x-not-regular-file > /usr/lib/libdts.a: application/x-not-regular-file > /usr/lib/libieee.a: application/x-object > /usr/lib/libmcheck.a: application/x-object > /usr/lib/libpng.a: application/x-not-regular-file > > So a few .a files don't appear as x-archive, but apparently the big > majority of them do, so maybe this is not a big problem.
I think a patch for this is fair game. -Dan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
