On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:46:14PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > ping is not exactly the smallest of the programs (~30K), and I > really trust d-i team judgement, I was just imagining that if it is > possible to have ping (which means that space and other things are not a > problem), we should add it for our users.
There is _no_ reason to exclude ping because of concerns about its size!! I have just compiled the udebs both without and with ping. Adding ping makes the busybox binary larger by 1568 BYTES or 800 BYTES depending on the udeb: busybox binary size: with ping: busybox-floppy-udeb/bin/busybox 74404 75972 busybox-udeb/bin/busybox 201228 202028 In the packed udeb, the difference is a whopping 678 bytes or 472 bytes: .udeb size: with ping: busybox-floppy-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 45920 46598 busybox-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 118896 119368 BTW, when the .udeb is put on a CD, the ISO9660 filesystem will always round up the required space to the next multiple of 2 kBytes. As it happens, the addition of ping makes no difference at all when this is considered: .udeb 2k CD blocks: with ping: busybox-floppy-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 23 23 busybox-udeb_1.1.3-4_i386.udeb 59 59 Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: 888354F7 | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 08A9 7B7D 3D13 3EF2 3D25 D157 79E6 F6DC 8883 54F7 ¯ '` ¯ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]