[arch-dev-public] Samba package sizes

[Allan McRae]

On 27/02/10 11:36, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Allan McRae<allan at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>> On 27/02/10 11:09, Dan McGee wrote:
>>>
>>> Guys, does anyone else think this is getting out of hand?
>>>
>>> Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
>>> :: Retrieving packages from extra...
>>>   smbclient-3.4.6-1-i686    18.0M   98.4K/s 00:03:08
>>>
>>> [-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
>>> 100%
>>>   samba-3.4.6-1-i686        26.8M   97.0K/s 00:04:43
>>>
>>> [-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------]
>>> 100%
>>>
>>> Seriously, 45 f-ing MB for samba? How can that be possible?
>>>
>>> $ ll /usr/bin/{ldb,smb}*
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/ldbadd
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/ldbdel
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/ldbedit
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/ldbmodify
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/ldbrename
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/ldbsearch
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.5M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbcacls
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.4M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbclient
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.2M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbcontrol
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.3M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbcquotas
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.4M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbget
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.3M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbpasswd
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.7M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbspool
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.1M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbstatus
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.8K Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbtar
>>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5.3M Feb 25 09:17 /usr/bin/smbtree
>>>
>>> Are we building this wrong
>>
>> Yes...
>>
>>> file /usr/bin/smb*
>> /usr/bin/smbcacls:   ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1
>> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not
>> stripped
>> /usr/bin/smbclient:  ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1
>> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not
>> stripped
>> /usr/bin/smbcquotas: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1
>> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not
>> stripped
>> /usr/bin/smbget:     ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1
>> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not
>> stripped
>> /usr/bin/smbspool:   ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1
>> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not
>> stripped
>> /usr/bin/smbtar:     POSIX shell script text executable
>> /usr/bin/smbtree:    ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1
>> (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, not
>> stripped
>>
>> Someone is not stripping their binaries...
>
> I forgot to mention that stripping doesn't help much although I did
> notice this in the initial investigation. Copying the above listed
> binaries to a tmp directory and stripping them only reduced the size
> from 44 MB total to 40 MB total.
>

After stripping, the file sizes seem to be similar to the Debian 
packages.   So I do not think it is our build process that is causing 
these large sizes.

Allan