[Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned

[Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned

[Joseph G. Boike]

Hi, my buildroot filesize had been around 3-4M (w/ r 22508)
With r 225765 and building using at91sam9260dfc_defconfig the filesize 
has jumped to ~14M.
Any thoughts on why?
(I have kernel 2.6.26 now.  The kernel size has been fairly consistent 
around 1.5M.)
Regards,
Joe

[Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned

[Nathanael D. Noblet]

Joseph G. Boike wrote:
> Hi, my buildroot filesize had been around 3-4M (w/ r 22508)
> With r 225765 and building using at91sam9260dfc_defconfig the filesize 
> has jumped to ~14M.
> Any thoughts on why?
> (I have kernel 2.6.26 now.  The kernel size has been fairly consistent 
> around 1.5M.)


No idea, but a clarification, are you talking about buildroot's 
outputted final rootfs, or buildroot project in svn?

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[Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned

[Joseph G. Boike]

> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:52:10 -0600
> From: "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@gnat.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned
> To: "Joseph G. Boike" <joe.boike@acsatlanta.com>
> Cc: build root <buildroot@uclibc.org>
> Message-ID: <487D706A.30908@gnat.ca>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Joseph G. Boike wrote:
>   
>> Hi, my buildroot filesize had been around 3-4M (w/ r 22508)
>> With r 225765 and building using at91sam9260dfc_defconfig the filesize 
>> has jumped to ~14M.
>> Any thoughts on why?
>> (I have kernel 2.6.26 now.  The kernel size has been fairly consistent 
>> around 1.5M.)
>>     
>
>
> No idea, but a clarification, are you talking about buildroot's 
> outputted final rootfs, or buildroot project in svn?
>
>   
The final output file (rootfs.arm-2008xxxx.ext2.gz) to be burned into my 
serial flash.
Regards,
Joe

[Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned

[Thiago A. Corrêa]

Most likely there are new packages being enabled on the defconfig. Did
you check that?

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Joseph G. Boike
<joe.boike@acsatlanta.com> wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:52:10 -0600
>> From: "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@gnat.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned
>> To: "Joseph G. Boike" <joe.boike@acsatlanta.com>
>> Cc: build root <buildroot@uclibc.org>
>> Message-ID: <487D706A.30908@gnat.ca>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Joseph G. Boike wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, my buildroot filesize had been around 3-4M (w/ r 22508)
>>> With r 225765 and building using at91sam9260dfc_defconfig the filesize
>>> has jumped to ~14M.
>>> Any thoughts on why?
>>> (I have kernel 2.6.26 now.  The kernel size has been fairly consistent
>>> around 1.5M.)
>>>
>>
>>
>> No idea, but a clarification, are you talking about buildroot's
>> outputted final rootfs, or buildroot project in svn?
>>
>>
> The final output file (rootfs.arm-2008xxxx.ext2.gz) to be burned into my
> serial flash.
> Regards,
> Joe
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[Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned

[Chien-Yu Chen]

I had a similiar problem.  I found out what's going on, but can only use a
dirty trick to avoid the problem...

I enabled initramfs support...so when compiling, kernel compiling in the
filesystem build up so far.  then everytime I modify the root file system
and make, somehow, kernel compiling keep the original cpio image from the
previous make, and attach a new copy of the new file system.  so the kernel
keep on growing, thus the resulting output file system keep on getting
bigger.

so what I did is to bypass the fakeroot part, since I have a valid
filesystem ready by the time kernel is compiled, I take the final kernel
image, run it through grub and mkisofs to generate the CD image I want.  I
eventually want to put it on flash drive...but so far this works for me.

chen

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Thiago A. Corr?a <thiago.correa@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Most likely there are new packages being enabled on the defconfig. Did
> you check that?
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Joseph G. Boike
> <joe.boike@acsatlanta.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:52:10 -0600
> >> From: "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@gnat.ca>
> >> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned
> >> To: "Joseph G. Boike" <joe.boike@acsatlanta.com>
> >> Cc: build root <buildroot@uclibc.org>
> >> Message-ID: <487D706A.30908@gnat.ca>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >>
> >> Joseph G. Boike wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi, my buildroot filesize had been around 3-4M (w/ r 22508)
> >>> With r 225765 and building using at91sam9260dfc_defconfig the filesize
> >>> has jumped to ~14M.
> >>> Any thoughts on why?
> >>> (I have kernel 2.6.26 now.  The kernel size has been fairly consistent
> >>> around 1.5M.)
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> No idea, but a clarification, are you talking about buildroot's
> >> outputted final rootfs, or buildroot project in svn?
> >>
> >>
> > The final output file (rootfs.arm-2008xxxx.ext2.gz) to be burned into my
> > serial flash.
> > Regards,
> > Joe
> > _______________________________________________
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> > buildroot at uclibc.org
> > http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
> >
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[Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned

[Joseph G. Boike]

I had thought about that and have tried removing packages but haven't 
found the source of the largess yet.
Is there an easy way to find out the sizes of parts of the final image 
to see if something looks out of line?
(I don't think I have the same problem that Chien-Yu Chen referenced, 
since my buildroot and kernel images are not increasing in size with 
each build.)
Regards,
Joe

Thiago A. Corr?a wrote:
> Most likely there are new packages being enabled on the defconfig. Did
> you check that?
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Joseph G. Boike
> <joe.boike@acsatlanta.com> wrote:
>   
>>> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:52:10 -0600
>>> From: "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael@gnat.ca>
>>> Subject: Re: [Buildroot] buildroot size ballooned
>>> To: "Joseph G. Boike" <joe.boike@acsatlanta.com>
>>> Cc: build root <buildroot@uclibc.org>
>>> Message-ID: <487D706A.30908@gnat.ca>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>
>>> Joseph G. Boike wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi, my buildroot filesize had been around 3-4M (w/ r 22508)
>>>> With r 225765 and building using at91sam9260dfc_defconfig the filesize
>>>> has jumped to ~14M.
>>>> Any thoughts on why?
>>>> (I have kernel 2.6.26 now.  The kernel size has been fairly consistent
>>>> around 1.5M.)
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> No idea, but a clarification, are you talking about buildroot's
>>> outputted final rootfs, or buildroot project in svn?
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> The final output file (rootfs.arm-2008xxxx.ext2.gz) to be burned into my
>> serial flash.
>> Regards,
>> Joe
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>>
>>