-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:40:34PM +0000, Masoom Shaikh wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>>>> most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk >>>>> >>>>> stripping em all reduces their size dramatically >>>>> >>>>> I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? >>>> me too >>>>> do I miss anything ? >>>> no. >>> I am confused why both of you are seeing "most" of the programs >>> installed this way. Can you confirm that this is true and not just an >>> exaggeration? >>> >>> As Matthew says, there are some ports that fail to strip their >>> binaries because of how they install files (using cp etc). These are >>> bugs that should be reported to their maintainers on a case by case >>> basis. >>> >>> Kris >>> >>> -- >>> In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. >>> -- Charles Forsythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >> Before sending mail I manually stripped * in /usr/local/bin >> >> else I cud send u the o/p of `ls -lhS` >> >> yes, "most" is bit exaggerated...I perhaps was talking about first five >> >> binaries listed in increasing order of size... > > Yeah the largest binaries are likely to be unstripped. You can use > pkg_which (part of portupgrade) to work out which ports they came > from, then send the mainainer a polite email and/or PR request that > they be installed stripped. > > Bonus points if you come up with a patch to do this: in most cases it > will be a simple matter of changing the port's do-install: target to > use INSTALL_* macros instead of cp/bsdtar etc. This would be a good > project to get some familiarity with the ports tree. > I was going to do some work on this except $file *|grep "not stripped" $
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