On 2014-08-12 03:19, Antoni Villalonga wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> On 2014-08-11 22:05, Guillem Jover wrote:
>>>>> After that it works.
>>>>> % dpkg-deb -R libkeyutils1_1.5.9-4_mips.deb libk
>>>>> % dpkg-deb -b libk
> ^^ I omit it was over another machine (amd64 desktop). So sorry!
Oh.
> My little mips machine is a home router with 64MB of ram.
>
> I've found two more packages with the same 'issue':
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libmagic1_5.11-2+deb7u3_mips.deb
> /var/cache/apt/archives/file_5.11-2+deb7u3_mips.deb
>
> I don't know anything about mips arch, but if most are little embedded systems
> it doesn't make sense to me building packages using these extra options.
> If there is a "mips team" or something like that could be they need to take
> some decisions about that.
>
> Now I have a work arround to fix my system's low memory problem repacking all
> needed packages (easily scriptable), so a 'wontfix' close will be fine to me.
Actually I do consider this a bug now, as I would expect Debian to run
on a device even if it only had 64MB of RAM.
If your system has a block device attached to it, you should definitely
create a swap partition on it, to be used as virtual memory. This should
eliminate the need for workarounds for the packages you mentioned.
See also
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/mipsel/ch06s03.html.en#lowmem
Regards,
Christian
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