Bug 458286

I don't see this as a big deal. I'll ask upstream why they use their own copy of libevent, they might have a good reason for it.

While looking at livecd size issues, I noticed that the transmission package grew by over 33% over the course of F10 development. Looking into this, I couldn't help but notice that transmission statically links a bunch of private libraries into at least 3 or 4 binaries. 

Beyond the policy-demands-you-use-system-libraries issue, this is wasteful in terms of disk space.

Matthias: Transmission couldn't have linked to libevent in F9 because it was too old. The one in F10 should be okay and we will rework the configure scripts to detect and link to the system libevent.

There are a few more libs, which first need to be supported as shared libraries before TR can link to them at runtime. These are small in size though.

Then there is probably something else going on. Some of the binaries, such as the cli and the remote one, have tripled in size, compared to F9

Here is the size comparison: 

F9:

[mclasen@localhost ~]$ rpm -qp --qf "[%{FILESIZES} %{FILENAMES}\n]" transmission-1.06-1.fc9.i386.rpm | grep /usr/bin
warning: transmission-1.06-1.fc9.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 4f2a6fd2
512380 /usr/bin/transmission
332100 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon
48356 /usr/bin/transmission-proxy
110628 /usr/bin/transmission-remote
278512 /usr/bin/transmissioncli

rawhide:

[mclasen@localhost ~]$ rpm -q --qf "[%{FILESIZES} %{FILENAMES}\n]" transmission | grep /usr/bin
564916 /usr/bin/transmission
335304 /usr/bin/transmission-daemon
349352 /usr/bin/transmission-remote
344280 /usr/bin/transmissioncli

[mclasen@localhost ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/transmission-remote 
	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00110000)
	libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x007ec000)
	librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00b2e000)
	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00808000)
	libssl.so.7 => /lib/libssl.so.7 (0x077ed000)
	libcrypto.so.7 => /lib/libcrypto.so.7 (0x075c3000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x009f2000)
	libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00a33000)
	libcurl.so.4 => /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4 (0x00cdf000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x009c7000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x009f9000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00851000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00823000)
	libgssapi_krb5.so.2 => /usr/lib/libgssapi_krb5.so.2 (0x0753d000)
	libkrb5.so.3 => /usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3 (0x07713000)
	libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x075ae000)
	libk5crypto.so.3 => /usr/lib/libk5crypto.so.3 (0x0756e000)
	libidn.so.11 => /lib/libidn.so.11 (0x077b9000)
	libssh2.so.1 => /usr/lib/libssh2.so.1 (0x001e1000)
	libldap-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/libldap-2.4.so.2 (0x003d8000)
	libssl3.so => /lib/libssl3.so (0x070f5000)
	libsmime3.so => /lib/libsmime3.so (0x07128000)
	libnss3.so => /lib/libnss3.so (0x07404000)
	libplds4.so => /lib/libplds4.so (0x07be7000)
	libplc4.so => /lib/libplc4.so (0x07b9e000)
	libnspr4.so => /lib/libnspr4.so (0x07ba5000)
	libkrb5support.so.0 => /usr/lib/libkrb5support.so.0 (0x00625000)
	libkeyutils.so.1 => /lib/libkeyutils.so.1 (0x077b4000)
	liblber-2.4.so.2 => /usr/lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 (0x00220000)
	libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x00722000)
	libnssutil3.so => /lib/libnssutil3.so (0x005d8000)
	libselinux.so.1 => /lib/libselinux.so.1 (0x00111000)
	libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x07a67000)

Matthias, the extra size I'm guessing is the new web interface feature. How about if I split this into a sub-package ?

If it is actual new features, then I don't mind the size increase - its not a huge package after all. I would mind a 33% size increase if it is just a linking error...

Denis, please wait on splitting packages for now. We'll do the required changes upstream so libtransmission can be made a separate package. Then, the non-gtk dependent binaries can be split into a different package from the gtk app, both of which would link to libtransmission.

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=847656

Upstream now tries to use the system version of libevent by default:

http://trac.transmissionbt.com/changeset?new=8601%40%2F&old=8598%40%2F