Re: gzippedkernel

KUTI Gabor (thunder@eik.bme.hu)
Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:14:03 +0100 (MET)


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> thunder@eik.bme.hu said:
> > I created two utilities to gzip most of the .c files in the kernel
> > source, making it smaller and also made new rules for Makefile. So
> > kernel compiling takes less space.
>
> I like this. Given that the option of splitting the source into separate
> chunks and only downloading the bits you need seems to have been rejected,
> this would provide a suitable alternative.
You mean by this that user could tell what parts of kernel should be
untarred? So that I will compile net with this and this driver, scsi with
this controller etc?
Well if this could be specified then the space source tree taken is really
the minimum but it is very version dependent!

> There are still rough edges though. It needs a patch-kernel script so that
> patches can be distributed in the same way as they are at the moment.
Using the hints you gave I made the patch for patch-kernel [did not give
you a credit for it -- will I? :)]
It's attached and it's a patch over the previous one [did not want to send
10k again]

Some problem still exists with it: since flygzip erases the unneeded arch
directories, files will not be found and skipped by patch. It could be
forced to skip them automatically, but since *.rej files will appear,
patch will always fail. Any ideas on this?

Another thought: will smart mkdep work? As I know gzip restores all the
attributes, dates as it was gzipped, so .o should be always newer than .c.
Does it stand?

Thank you David for the reaction, anyway :)
This could my first patch [if it's gonna be ;)], but more serious ones
should come, I'm going to work on acl [ported from SunOS] as a project on
the univ.

Seasons

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