Bug 273160

Summary:	samba-client size
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Dirk Mueller <dmueller>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	The 'Opening Windows to a Wider World' guys <samba-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	lars.vogdt
Version:	Alpha 3plus
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	273170
Attachments:	samba client sizes (including dependencies)

Description Dirk Mueller 2007-05-10 10:54:56 UTC

Hi, 

for the 1 CD installation targets I've done a size analysis and noticed that samba-client is quite large. particularly it contains quite huge binaries, all of them shouldn't be that large I think. 

I suspect that each of them statically links a library with common code that could be linked shared to save space overall.

Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2007-05-10 10:55:57 UTC

Created attachment 138941 [details]
samba client sizes (including dependencies)

Comment 2 Lars Müller 2007-05-18 07:49:25 UTC

In addition Dirk mentioned while a discussion samba-client shouldn't prerequire /usr/bin/strings which triggers binutils.  This hack was needed to update Samba's winbindd - the init script was moved to a new sub package - from UL 1 / SLES 8. We decided to drop this update path with Samba 3.0.25.  The only loss is a not active service winbind after an update from UL 1 / SLES 8 to Samba 3.0.25 on SLES 9 or 10.

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2007-06-17 05:55:23 UTC

Any news?

Comment 4 Lars Müller 2007-06-20 15:07:17 UTC

We'll not split out libraries to lower the foot print of samba-client, as this will not be supported upstream.