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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 |
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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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Hu
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| Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| OP: if you revert to the USE flags you used originally, does the problem reappear? It would be good to understand whether your first problem was an errant bad install (perhaps related to an ill-timed system crash) that would have been fixed by rebuilding with the same options or is a reproducible defect in the package. |
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Zucca
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| Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2024 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for filling the bug report.
I too was confused because of the naming. I thought redistributable was another bindist, or so...
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Adel Ahmed
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| Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 11:07 am Post subject: |
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| yeah the problem reappears if I revert to the flags I used originally |
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