Re: [RHSA-2003:067-01] Updated XFree86 packages provide security and bug fixes

On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:17:25PM -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
> Well, what I *really* ran was this:
> 
> for file in *; do if file $file | grep 'not stripped' > /dev/null; then strip $file; fi; done
> 
> That will only do actual binaries that are not stripped.  I am running X
> just fine right now after that...
> 
> Raul
> 
> Charles Curley wrote:
> 
>  > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 11:41:38AM -0700, Raul Acevedo wrote:
>  > > Just running strip on everything in /usr/X11R6/{bin,lib} ought to take
>  > > care of this if you're already installed the RPMs, right?
>  > 
>  > Not a good idea.
>  > 
>  > [root@issola X11R6]# du -hs .
>  > 193M    .
>  > [root@issola X11R6]# find . -type f | xargs strip
>  > 
>  > # All sorts of "File format not recognized" messages. I'm sure I could
>  >   have refined the search, but what the heck.
>  > 
>  > [root@issola X11R6]# du -hs .
>  > 57M     .
>  > 
>  > However, that crashed X. With a lot of "No Symbols found"
>  > messages. Oops.
>  > 
>  > It might work better if you don't strip the modules. Anyone want to
>  > try that?

First, I restored my files, like so:

rpm -ivh --force XFree86-*

(with the files present selected from a list of the installed RPMs)

Then I took your line of code above (thanks!) and did the following:

[root@issola X11R6]# cd bin
[root@issola bin]# for file in *; do if file $file | grep 'not stripped' > /dev/null; then strip $file; fi; done
[root@issola bin]# cd ../lib/
[root@issola lib]# for file in *; do if file $file | grep 'not stripped' > /dev/null; then strip $file; fi; done
[root@issola lib]# cd ..; du -sh
177M    .


Not quite the size reduction I got before (which suggests I stripped
some stuff I should not have). But X works.

Thanks.


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