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Greg KH wrote: |
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> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:49:04PM +0100, twofourtysix wrote: |
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>>On 05/09/05, Petteri R?ty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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>>>I have a couple of old machines I maintain and emerging and unmerging |
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>>>kernel sources take a while because there are so many files. Also one |
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>>>set of gentoo sources takes about 230MB of disk space. By removing stuff |
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>>>not belonging to x86 I was able to succesfully run make with 58MB/230MB |
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>>>removed. The stuff I removed: |
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>>>arch/* except i386 and x86_64 |
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>>>include/asm-* expect asm-generic, asm-i386 and asm-x86_64 |
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>>Is this safe? |
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> No it isn't. Please don't try to do this, it's not worth it. If disk |
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> space is limited, just build on one box, and install the kernel to the |
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> other one. |
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IMHO it is, but not as a USE flag (it will never be stable enough |
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without upstream support) but I think many would find the functionality |
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useful in a script. I know I would. If it works most of the time and |
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saves space, there is no reason not trim things. If it breaks, you |
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immediately revert to a normal build. |
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> Or, put the kernel source on a cd, and build off of it (putting the |
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> objects on your local disk.) This lets you only use the local disk for |
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> your built objects. |
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> thanks, |
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> greg k-h |
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