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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
> Am Fri, 19 Sep 2014 03:18:57 -0300
> schrieb Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:02 AM, lynx AT codemages.net <lynx AT codemages.net> 
>> wrote:
>
>> > Btw, unless someone removed that part, bash is always also compiled into 
>> > a
>> > static bin/bash.static for any emergencies.
>>
>> Oh my... I didn't notice it, cool, less work to do.
>
> Well, one thing would be to make sorcery use this one, I guess. The
> other one is that we realized that it is not enough to have static
> bash, stuff commonly used in the bash scripts, like awk, also need to
> be present. But yes, at least on my system, /bin/bash.static still
> exists (symlink to /sbin/bash.static), the unstripped binary is 7.4 M
> against 2.5 M for the shared one. After stripping, it's 1.6 M against
> 703 K.

I'm wondering how should we package this... patching sorcery to use it
is going to be trivial.

What would be the best approach for this? A single spell
conglomerating the whole thing?