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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 15:23:12 +1100
From:      Tim Robbins <tjr@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/releases/5.0R todo.sgml
Message-ID:  <20021119152312.A70748@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
In-Reply-To: <20021119024120.GA1917@rot13.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:41:20PM -0800
References:  <200211190032.gAJ0WoNq032778@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021119005344.GE16066@elvis.mu.org> <20021119130340.A66949@dilbert.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20021119024120.GA1917@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 06:41:20PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 01:03:40PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote:
> 
> > IIRC /boot/kernel/kernel.debug is still being installed, which takes up
> > 32 MB of disk space. This probably needs to go since it is a significant
> > amount of space for something that most people won't use; you can get away
> > with a 40-50 MB root fs on 4.7-RELEASE (inc. modules.old and kernel.old).
> 
> Hmm, I've never seen this on any of my machines.  How does
> kernel.debug get installed, and are you sure it's not a local diff?

This looks like the culprit, from src/release/Makefile...

# Make and install the generic kernel(s).
release.4:
*snip*
        ${CROSSMAKE} ${KERNEL_FLAGS} -DNO_MODULES \
            reinstallkernel -DINSTALL_DEBUG \ 
            DESTDIR=${RD}/trees/base

I'd like to see this go for 5.0-RELEASE or be taken out of the `base' set
and moved into `debug' or something. It would make FTP installs a bit
quicker for people on slow links (like myself) and allow people to make
their root FS smaller (~60 MB vs. ~90 MB). It would also save a little bit
of space on the CD since an uncompressed copy of kernel.debug is on it in the
`boot' directory.


Tim

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