[poky] Image size explosion

[Gary Thomas]

On 07/05/2011 10:44 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 10:29 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I just rebuilt my image after updating to the latest master and
>> I observed image explosion (my mimimal image went from 3.9MB to
>> 37MB!)  Looking at what went into the image, I see some packaging
>> changes.  The package
>>     libc6
>> is now a bunch of packages
>>     eglibc
>>     eglibc-dev
>>     eglibc-extra-nss
>>     libcidn1
>>     libgcc1
>>     libgcc-s-dev
>>     libthread-dbl
>>     linux-libc-headers-dev
>> which seem to be responsible for the bloat.
>>
>> Questions:
>> * What changed that now brings this in?
>> * Can I get back to my old, minimal, setup?  This is for a deeply
>>     embedded device and I don't need/want any development stuff.
>
> When we split up the locale generation we broke eglibc. It sounds like
> you're missing the fixes for that?
>
> Assuming minimal stops pulling in eglibc-dev things should look
> better...

I just updated against the latest master and rebuilt and now my images
are back to a more sane size.

Thanks

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