[arch-dev-public] Samba package sizes

[Dan McGee]

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.

-Dan