On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 08:22:21PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 09:13:37PM +0300, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > > The image already has an empty /usr/libdata/debug. The increase in > > size when MKDEBUG is enabled is spread out over various other > > directories, notably /usr/lib. For example, > > > > /usr/lib 405182 kB -> 866276 kB > > /usr/bin 53426 kB -> 63140 kB > > > > The largest file in /usr/lib is libstdc++_pic.a, which grows from > > 4.3 MB to 27 MB. > > Heh - nice, didn't think about that. > > How about: remove all *.a files from those images? > Is there a tool to strip CTF from binaries? > > Martin
I guess not a lot of people use the amd64 .img files as an alternate sysinst for remote setups. where you reboot to rescue, dd it to disk, then reboot to a complete netbsd install.
