On 6/14/2017 3:37 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote:
Please forgive me if this has been noted on misc@, as I've overlooked
it, but, just out of curiosity, can anyone account for the recent
doubling in size of base61.tgz in recent amd64 snapshots of -current?
As recently as 7 June, it was ~58 MB in size, but over the last couple
of days at least, it has ballooned to nearly 120 MB in size. None of the
other tarballs seem to have changed much at all.
KARL creates a new /usr/share/compile.tgz file, which is expanded
to /usr/share/compile/GENERIC.MP directory at first boot
that is the new space, a link kit
The .o's are compiled with -ggdb, and that may shrink in the future
if someone provides glue to shrink-down the .o files
Kewl. I saw the post about KARL on undeadly.org, but didn't realize the
two events were related.
Thanks!
