Re: Kernel modules in initrd

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

> On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:32:49 +0100
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> wrote:
>
>> > > P.S. How come glibc is in the initrd?  Shouldn't guile have statically linked it?
>> > > glibc is like 50000 kiB.  In that case saving 800 kiB is not really worth it...    
>> > 
>> > One of the packages that ends up in the initrd must be dynamically
>> > linked.  You need to find out which one it is.  
>> 
>> It's because of bash-minimal.
>
> And that's because of:
>
> ./gnu/store/lksm6f1ahvikxnwkfs34sabbb4f7209p-guile-static-stripped-2.2.3/share/guile/2.2/ice-9/popen.scm:  (open-pipe* mode "/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12/bin/bash" "-c" command))

Ouch, indeed!

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix size guile-static-stripped
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/lksm6f1ahvikxnwkfs34sabbb4f7209p-guile-static-stripped-2.2.3    77.0    45.7  59.4%
/gnu/store/n6acaivs0jwiwpidjr551dhdni5kgpcr-glibc-2.26.105-g0890d5379c    30.3    28.8  37.4%
/gnu/store/05dvazr5wfh7lxx4zi54zfqnx6ha8vxr-bash-static-4.4.12       1.5     1.5   1.9%
/gnu/store/icz3hd36aqpjz5slyp4hhr8wsfbgiml1-bash-minimal-4.4.12     31.3     1.0   1.3%
total: 77.0 MiB
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

How long have we had this?

I’ve fixed it in 63e48300d19b848dfe75880581338c2c73b7b0df, so we’re now
at 45.7 MiB, which is still a lot, but much better.

Ludo'.