How to remove mozilla properly?
Satish Balay
balay at fastmail.fm
Thu Sep 16 14:51:43 UTC 2004
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 at fastmail.fm> 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
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