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Adel Ahmed
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 Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 1:56 pm Post subject: 0 byte sized firmware files in linux-firmware[solved] |
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firmware installed by linux-firmware is zero sized, how can I resolve this?:
| Code: | root@localhost $ emerge linux-firmware -pv
* IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/portage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20241210-r1' needs updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
* sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 25.26 s (backtrack: 0/20).
[ebuild R ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20241210-r1::gentoo USE="savedconfig -bindist -compress-xz -compress-zstd -deduplicate -dist-kernel -initramfs -redistributable (-unknown-license)" 0 Ki
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| Code: | root@localhost $ ls -lh /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/
total 12K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723aufw_A.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723aufw_B.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723aufw_B_NoBT.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723befw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723befw_36.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 27 13:35 rtl8723bs_ap_wowlan.bin -> rtl8723bu_ap_wowlan.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723bs_bt.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 27 13:35 rtl8723bs_nic.bin -> rtl8723bu_nic.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 27 13:35 rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin -> rtl8723bu_wowlan.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723bu_ap_wowlan.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723bu_nic.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723bu_wowlan.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723defw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723fw.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Dec 27 13:34 rtl8723fw_B.bin |
Last edited by Adel Ahmed on Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:58 am; edited 1 time in total |
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Josef.95
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| Posted: Fri Dec 27, 2024 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Not sure, but don't disable USE=redistributable should probably help. |
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Adel Ahmed
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| Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 8:58 am Post subject: |
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definitely helped, do not understand why but the size is now non-zero, I have another machine with -redistributable and did not encounter that problem.
I'm happy it worked, thank you josef for your help |
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hdcg
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| Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 9:29 am Post subject: |
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The size shown, is the download size. If the files are already available in distfiles, the size is always zero. Bottom line of emerge output shows this explicit:
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~ # emerge linux-firmware -pv
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20241210-r1::gentoo USE="redistributable -bindist -compress-xz -compress-zstd -deduplicate -dist-kernel -initramfs -savedconfig (-unknown-license)" 0 KiB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
~ # rm /var/cache/distfiles/linux-firmware-20241210.tar.xz
~ # emerge linux-firmware -pv
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-kernel/linux-firmware-20241210-r1::gentoo USE="redistributable -bindist -compress-xz -compress-zstd -deduplicate -dist-kernel -initramfs -savedconfig (-unknown-license)" 401,798 KiB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 401,798 KiB
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logrusx
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| Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:05 am Post subject: |
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| Adel Ahmed wrote: | | definitely helped, do not understand why |
Redistributable includes files that are non-free but redistributable i.e. files with problematic licenses. It's by default enabled, you should have disabled it yourself.
| hdcg wrote: | The size shown, is the download size. If the files are already available in distfiles, the size is always zero. Bottom line of emerge output shows this explicit:
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The original question addresses the files, not the distfiles.
p.s. I just filed a bug on that: https://bugs.gentoo.org/947106
Best Regards,
Georgi |
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