make-kpkg makes HUGE kernel packages??

[Raffaele Morelli]

hi


> obviously a half-gig-sized kernel package is not optimal, i'd very much
> like to figure out what's going on here... also i should say that the
> after the build process, the source directory becomes enormous -- 2.7
> gigs with ubuntu's 2.6.20 as opposed to a more restrained 700megs back
> in the old days.
>
> so, if anyone's seen anything like this before... please let mek now!
> thanks,
>
> matt


never seen before... on debian ;-)
I frequently recompile kernel, recently with 2.6.18 sources, but source dir
is around 500-600Mb, initrd.img and vmlinuz range are ~4.5Mb and ~1.5Mb
respectively.

I think you need Manoj Srivastava help fot this

cheers

--
> Matt Price
> History Dept
> University of Toronto
> matt.price at utoronto.ca
>
>
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