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Re: [Astlinux-devel] Growing .run image file
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From: Lonnie A. <li...@lo...> - 2009-09-30 02:57:17
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Ahhh, so this is a generic problem. Looks like Philip fixed this issue with trunk-3341 Thanks... Lonnie On Sep 29, 2009, at 6:33 PM, David Kerr wrote: > No, I've promoted Ubuntu 64-bit to run native on a Core 2 Duo > system... other platforms (from a certain company from the northwest > usa) demoted to VMware guests. > > David > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo... > > wrote: > David, > > Exactly what I'm seeing. > > Are you also using VMware for your build environment? > > Lonnie > > > > On Sep 29, 2009, at 3:59 PM, David Kerr wrote: > > I can confirm that I am seeing the same behavior. > > In the 0.7 branch svn 3332 and 3340, with my particular package > selection for Alix target... > The .run file is 30.3MB in size starting from a completely clean > build tree. If I then rebuild by deleting build_i586 directory, but > leaving the rootfs.i586.* files, then the .run file is 32.6MB. If I > then rebuild by deleting the build_i586 AND the rootfs.i586.* files > then the resulting .run file is 30.3MB again. > > Something is going on, so I'll now get into the habit of erasing the > rootfs.i586.* files as well now. > > David > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lo... > > wrote: > Interesting... > > With that in mind, I'm using a rather small VMware partition, this > might be unique to my setup. > > But if this is a general observation of others, then this fix might be > added to the default build script. > > Lonnie > > > On Sep 28, 2009, at 5:44 PM, Philip A. Prindeville wrote: > > > It could be related to fragmentation, and a freelist of blocks being > > left behind after doing various cleanup such as "rm -rf > > $(TARGET_DIR)/usr/man ..." etc. > > > > > > On 09/28/2009 02:59 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > >> While building new images I was reminded of an old issue. > >> > >> Basically, if I 'svn co' to a fresh directory and build, I get > >> a .run > >> image of 'x' MB's. > >> > >> Then, I make a couple very minor changes, make a package outside of > >> 'make menuconfig', make a new clean build, I get a .run image of > 'x' > >> + 2.4 MB's. > >> > >> The solution is to "rm -f rootfs.i586.*" before 'make all runfs' in > >> the build script. > >> > >> It appears that if the previous rootfs* files are not removed any > >> previous extra size is maintained. > >> > >> Does this make sense? > >> > >> Lonnie > >> > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in > SF, CA > > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > > your > > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > > stay > > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > > now! > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > > _______________________________________________ > > Astlinux-devel mailing list > > Ast...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-devel > > > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal > to pa...@kr... > > . > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-devel mailing list > Ast...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-devel > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pa...@kr... > . > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart > your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and > stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register > now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf_______________________________________________ > Astlinux-devel mailing list > Ast...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-devel > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pa...@kr... > . > > |