From: Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: udev source size
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:52:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119205212.GM27591@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3931.212.67.81.238.1074502022.squirrel@webmail.hosting4p.com>
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:51:16AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:40:44AM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:47:02AM +0100, Tomas wrote:
> > > Binary size of udev is 50 KB, but source size is >2MB.
> > > Is this necessary?
> >
> > It's due to the udev tarball including a whole whack of external stuff.
> > I believe that Greg is doing this because many of these programs and
> > libraries are very young, so compatibility changes from version to
> > version.
> >
> > The tarball is currently carrying around libsysfs and klibc. The bulk
> > of the extra space is klibc.
>
> We also have a copy of a sysfs tree in order to run tests.
>
> But the bulk of the tarball is probably the bitkeeper data. The tarball
> contains all of the bitkeeper metadata so that anyone can see the entire
> revision history.
>
Yeah, you're right about that. The tree size goes from 8972 down to
4504 if I do:
find . -type d -name BitKeeper -o -name SCCS | xargs rm -rf
> Is it really a big deal that the tarball is the current size?
not to me...
mh
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-19 8:47 udev source size Tomas
2004-01-19 13:40 ` Martin Hicks
2004-01-19 19:51 ` Greg KH
2004-01-19 20:52 ` Martin Hicks [this message]
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