Bug 449713 - frysk package is huge!
Summary: frysk package is huge!
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: frysk
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrew Cagney
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-03 02:08 UTC by Jeremy Katz
Modified: 2008-06-04 15:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-06-04 15:50:32 UTC
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Description Jeremy Katz 2008-06-03 02:08:57 UTC
The frysk package includes incredibly large core files as well as what looks
like a number of apps statically linked with the same set of libraries.  This
leads to an on-disk footprint that's only less than that of openoffice!

Comment 1 Phil Muldoon 2008-06-03 09:20:25 UTC
I'll answer the corefile comment. Yes there is, but remember that a corefile is
spares, so look at it via ls -lash and look at "real" size over "actual" size.
It is actually needed to test all of the corefile functions, via the testsuite.
Might move it to -devel instead?

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2008-06-03 14:49:00 UTC
The testsuite should get used at build time... it shouldn't really be needed to
be installed at runtime.  -devel maybe, but I wouldn't include it anywhere
outside of the src.rpm

Comment 3 Andrew Cagney 2008-06-04 15:50:32 UTC
This is a known upstream problem.

- the large executables, which are causing the large rpm size, will be fixed in
frysk 0.5 (it missed the cut for 0.4).

- the core files are (or should be) in the devel package and are used for
testing / development.  I posted a question about best practice for bundling
tests to fedora-devel@, the only reply was a technical how-to.

closing bug as upstream




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