On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:58:52 -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > > > --On Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:49 AM -0500 Satish Balay > > <balay@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > The only issue I have is - the rpm files are 10 times larger > > > than downloadable binaries (1.7.2) - and I don't know why.. > > > > Try listing the archive contents: > > > > rpm2cpio mozilla-1.7.3-1.i386.rpm | cpio -tv > > > > That should tell you where the space is being consumed. > > Or: rpm -qlvp mozilla-1.7.3-1.i386.rpm I know that the components/*.so files are the ones that are abnormally big. But I don't know why user compiled mozilla rpms get that way. Anyone else able to reproduce this? (rpm --rebuild mozilla.src.rpm should give this for earlier versions as well) -bash-2.05b$ ls -l total 102712 -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 82646274 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 168383 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-chat-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 3374188 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-devel-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 625409 Sep 15 15:41 mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 215853 Sep 15 15:41 mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 16099624 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-mail-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 465183 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-nspr-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 180110 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 823631 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-nss-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 test test 420962 Sep 15 15:40 mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm -bash-2.05b$ rpm -qlvp mozilla-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm |grep comp |grep so\$ -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6712046 Sep 15 15:17 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.3/components/libaccessibility.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3530368 Sep 15 15:20 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.3/components/libappcomps.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 69808062 Sep 15 15:11 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.3/components/libgklayout.so <snip> -bash-2.05b$ rpm -qlvp mozilla-1.7.3-0.1.0.i386.rpm | grep mozilla.bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 185988 Sep 15 15:36 /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.3/mozilla-bin Satish
