William Pursell writes:
> On 8/29/07, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote:
> > William Pursell wrote:
> > > Where can I find the list of files which are copied to the miniroot image?
> > >
> >
> > There isn't a simple list. Presently, a set of packages are added, and
> > then a bunch of unused portions of the resulting file system are
> > removed. Why do you ask?
> >
>
> I want to add ksh93 and make /bin/sh a link to it. Should save some
> disk space, memory and make miniroot faster
Then unpack the archive with /usr/sbin/root_archive and change it.
Don't forget that ksh93 has a different set of library requirements
from /usr/bin/sh. It needs all of the ones that /usr/bin/sh needs,
plus the following:
Path File size
/usr/lib/libshell.so.1 629852
/usr/lib/libcmd.so.1 246444
/usr/lib/libdll.so.1 29700
/usr/lib/libast.so.1 1155644
/lib/libsocket.so.1 90300
Of those, only libsocket is already present. (There's a libcmd.so.1,
but it's a dummy.)
And (of course) you'll need to include both /usr/bin/ksh93 and
/usr/bin/i86/ksh93.
And speed of the miniroot (at least in terms of upgrading or
installing) is mostly governed by the speed of the random-access
medium used to store the packages and the efficiency of the
package-handling code itself, none of which has much to do with the
shell.
It doesn't sound like a big win to me versus the 120020-byte /sbin/sh
executable, but I guess your mileage will vary.
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