Re: linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
>Could you give it a try? ... I did. See footnote 2. [2] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43332 pgpTAWG_ImLeN.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-11 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Danny, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: >> So, I can think of the following ways to address that: >> >> 1. Remove for example *.c, assuming the out-of-tree modules we package >> only care about *.h + build machinery. > > The biggest source files, see above, are header files > (drivers/gpu

Re: linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-11 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:26:57 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > 150 MB > > a2fs24bgghjvlzq5lzr6zki7mqxx8mpi-linux-libre-module-builder-5.8.7/lib/modules/build/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/include/asic_reg > > 30 MB > > a2fs24bgghjvlzq5lzr6zki7mqxx8mpi-linux-libre-module-builder-5.8.7/lib/modules

Re: linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Danny Milosavljevic skribis: > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:09:11 +0200 > Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >> Surely we don’t need that much just to build a kernel module. :-) > > Since Linux is a monolithic kernel and since C has no modules: Yes, yes we > do--in the general case. > > Linux kernel de

Re: linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-10 Thread Danny Milosavljevic
Hi Ludo, On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 10:09:11 +0200 Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Surely we don’t need that much just to build a kernel module. :-) Since Linux is a monolithic kernel and since C has no modules: Yes, yes we do--in the general case. Linux kernel developers have no interest in supporting out

linux-module-builder leads to huge store items

2020-09-10 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello Danny & Mathieu, While looking for sources of contention on ci.guix.gnu.org, I found that “linux-libre-module-builder” leads to hge trees in the store; performing deduplication on these trees takes ages, and more generally these big trees look unreasaonble to me. --8<---cut