Package: upx-ucl
Version: 3.00-1
Severity: normal
I compress kernels for a project I work with and I noticed that v3.00
compresses worse than v2.03 (~5k worse)
/usr/src/linux$ upx-ucl -f -9 bzImage
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Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007
UPX 3.00 Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser Apr 27th
2007
File size Ratio Format Name
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
908856 -> 855959 94.18% bvmlinuz/386 bzImage
Packed 1 file.
/usr/src/linux$ cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage
bzImage
/usr/src/linux$ upx-ucl -f -9 bzImage
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Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006
UPX 2.03 Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser Nov 7th
2006
File size Ratio Format Name
-------------------- ------ ----------- -----------
908856 -> 850986 93.63% bvmlinuz/386 bzImage
Packed 1 file.
/usr/src/linux$
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages upx-ucl depends on:
ii libc6 2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070609-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070609-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libucl1 1.03-2 Portable compression library - run
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
upx-ucl recommends no packages.
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