2012/7/13 Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > >> Actually, this feels like an upstream kernel 3.2 bug: as a test, I >> purposely disabled TMPFS for /tmp just to see if the kernel package >> would finally build as expected. It did, except that the resulting DEB >> is a whopping 488MB in size, compared to 22MB for the stock Debian >> linux-image-3.2.0-3-686-pae built using the exact same .config file. > > That's because the Debian packaging strips debugging symbols into a > separate -dbg package.
I'm already aware of the effects of stripping binaries. However, you gotta admit that 488MB compared to 22MB is just ridiculous; something is definitely broken in those 3.2 build scripts. Martin-Éric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAPZXPQfyGSscLOx3xeORxz3rH4YbRjQt_hZaz-b6i2tRr+n=9...@mail.gmail.com
