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Re: [LUG] thunderbirds are go

 

n 10/08/2020 10:01, Eion MacDonald wrote:
On 09/08/2020 17:38, comrade meowski wrote:
Ubuntu can be really slow to package certain software so I've been
backporting a bunch of stuff to 18.04 and 20.04 LTS - most if it's
really easy and straight forward but some packages are absolute
monsters. For comparison a full "kitchen-sink" generic x64 kernel build
takes about 25 minutes and uses 5-6Gb space on average for a full branch
checkout and compile.

I just backported Thunderbird 78 which has already been out for weeks
because I was getting annoyed waiting for it:

comrade@failbot:~/SRC/chunderbird$ apt-cache policy thunderbird | sed -n 2p
   Installed: 1:78.1.1+build1-0ubuntu1+motherland1

It took over 4 hours to build! And the size of it...

comrade@failbot:~/SRC/chunderbird$ du -sh .
30G    .

Now I know how MJE feels every time he turns on his Gentoo computer and
sees there are updates available :]

openSUSE LEAP 15.2 is just on Thunderbird 68.10.

Same here on Mint 19.3

Julian

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