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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 00:14:19 +0100
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: Size of images in make-kpkg and make deb-pkg
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On 12.2.2013 01:29, Javier Domingo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I don't know if this belongs here, but I just wanted to came across a
> strange thing I am experiencing. I am currently working on v3.6, and I
> have just discovered that generated kernel images have a totally
> unrelated size.
> 
> When I compile with something like make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image
> kernel_headers, the generated image is 7.7MB, and when I then run make
> deb-pkg, the generated deb package is 33MB.
> 
> Other sizes are:
> 6.5M <-> 24M
> 38M <-> 484M (!!!)

My guess is that the big one includes full debuginfo, while the other
one is stripped.

Michal