<div dir="ltr">It was also proposed and discussed some 15 months ago and it was packaging issue not handling hardlinks correctly:<div><a href="http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-April/103939.html">http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-April/103939.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>I believe this was fixed then, but maybe it got broken again?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 9:50 PM, André Draszik <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:git@andred.net" target="_blank">git@andred.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">On 14 Sep 2016 5:40 p.m., "Patrick Williams" <<a href="mailto:patrick@stwcx.xyz" target="_blank">patrick@stwcx.xyz</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> The /sbin/fsck.ext[234] programs currently installed are all<br>
> the same binary as e2fsck. The package provides an option to<br>
> have fsck.ext[234] be symlinked to /sbin/e2fsck instead. This<br>
> reduces the uncompressed footprint of this package by ~1MB on ARM.</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">They were all hardlinks last time I checked not long ago. Why do hardlinks increase the footprint?</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">A.</p></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<p dir="ltr">><br>
> Add --enable-symlink-install to EXTRA_OECONF to enable.<br>
><br>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Williams <<a href="mailto:patrick@stwcx.xyz" target="_blank">patrick@stwcx.xyz</a>><br>
> ---<br>
> meta/recipes-devtools/<wbr>e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb" target="_blank">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a> | 3 ++-<br>
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)<br>
><br>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/<wbr>e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb" target="_blank">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a> b/meta/recipes-devtools/<wbr>e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb" target="_blank">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a><br>
> index f4855bc..d6db612 100644<br>
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/<wbr>e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb" target="_blank">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a><br>
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/<wbr>e2fsprogs/<a href="http://e2fsprogs_1.43.bb" target="_blank">e2fsprogs_1.43.bb</a><br>
> @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)*)$"<br>
><br>
> EXTRA_OECONF += "--libdir=${base_libdir} --sbindir=${base_sbindir} \<br>
> --enable-elf-shlibs --disable-libuuid --disable-uuidd \<br>
> - --disable-libblkid --enable-verbose-makecmds"<br>
> + --disable-libblkid --enable-verbose-makecmds \<br>
> + --enable-symlink-install"<br>
><br>
> EXTRA_OECONF_darwin = "--libdir=${base_libdir} --sbindir=${base_sbindir} --enable-bsd-shlibs"<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> 2.9.0<br>
><br>
><br>
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