On Jul 1, 2004 at 13:51, Bruno Wolff III in a soothing rage wrote: >I was looking at grabbing another copy of the development kernel to try out >and noticed that the rpms are much larger (several over 90MB) than they >were previously. Is this just something special with that particular >development version or is this going to be normal for the future? > >ftp> pwd >257 "/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS" >ftp> ls *467* >227 Entering Passive Mode (66,187,224,20,47,115) >150 Here comes the directory listing. >-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 93037484 Jun 30 18:35 kernel-2.6.7-1.467.i586.rpm >-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 92953648 Jun 30 18:49 kernel-2.6.7-1.467.i686.rpm >-rw-r--r-- 7 ftp ftp 2005870 Jun 30 18:17 kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.467.noarch.rpm >-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 94188833 Jun 30 18:38 kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.467.i586.rpm >-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 97909396 Jun 30 18:54 kernel-smp-2.6.7-1.467.i686.rpm >-rw-r--r-- 7 ftp ftp 45175274 Jun 30 18:17 kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.467.noarch.rpm >226 Directory send OK. Just speculating here... Could be that the files in it are not stripped. Are there any debug-info files there? N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 You attempt things that you do not even plan because of your extreme stupidity. 15:34:38 up 3 days, 8:49, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00