On Jul 1, 2004 at 13:51, Bruno Wolff III in a soothing rage wrote:
I was looking at grabbing another copy of the development kernel to
try out
and noticed that the rpms are much larger (several over 90MB) than they
were previously. Is this just something special with that particular
development version or is this going to be normal for the future?
ftp> pwd
257 "/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS"
ftp> ls *467*
227 Entering Passive Mode (66,187,224,20,47,115)
150 Here comes the directory listing.
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 93037484 Jun 30 18:35 kernel-2.6.7-1.467.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 92953648 Jun 30 18:49 kernel-2.6.7-1.467.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 7 ftp ftp 2005870 Jun 30 18:17 kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.467.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 94188833 Jun 30 18:38 kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.467.i586.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 97909396 Jun 30 18:54 kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.467.i686.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 7 ftp ftp 45175274 Jun 30 18:17
kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.467.noarch.rpm
226 Directory send OK.
Just speculating here... Could be that the files in it are
not
stripped. Are there any debug-info files there?
N.Emile...
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