Hello, On Wed, 27 Dec 2017, Benjamin Drung wrote: > The wget binary depends on many libraries. On Debian 9 (stretch) these > are: libffi6, libgnutls30, libhogweed4, libidn11, libidn2-0, libnettle6, > libp11-kit0, libpsl5, libtasn1-6, libunistring0. In total 8 megabytes. > This increases the initramfs size a lot. To save space, use wget from > busybox instead. Commit 4328832d0 that adds wget does not give a reason > why busybox's wget is not used. A patch is tested and attached.
The usual reason is for "https" support. Have you tried to use https URLs in the various places where we can use URLs? Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: https://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: https://debian-handbook.info/get/
