On 28 Dec 2000, at 14:31, Kenneth Hadley wrote:
> its my opinion that upx would be very usefull on LRP kernels but a hit
> and miss afair on LRP packages (it may help in certain cases but its
> up to the packager of the program)
You may be right.
> anyone have any thoughts?
I experimented myself, though not with Linux kernels. UPX is an
executable compressor; when you create a package, the files are
combined (with tar) and compressed with gzip. Thus, a compressed
executable is being compressed AGAIN - which leads typically to no
space savings or more space being used (instead of less). This is
normal for compression of compressed files.
The best thing I can see is that UPX will save memory space - if your
requirements require a 16M machine, then UPX will help in those
situations. If your requirements require 1.44M disks, you won't get
any help from UPX :-)
It sounds like UPX may help in compressing the kernels, though.
Hmmmm.....
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David Douthitt
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