Topic: The release of v0.4.3 is not ready, many problems need to be solved!!!
In this post, I will list many problems which are in the current Hyperbola/GNU Linux-libre.
Let's begin.
In v0.4 and later, all executable binaries and libaries are not stripped.
For example, the size of /usr/bin/gcc should usually be about 1MB, but now it is about 6MB.
If you need a more ridiculous comparison, please see the two links below.
[1] https://www.hyperbola.info/packages/core/x86_64/gcc/
[2] https://www.parabola.nu/packages/core/x86_64/gcc/
The installed size of gcc 8.4.0 is 871.0 MB from [1], but the installed size of the newer gcc 13.2.1 is only 184.2 MB from [2].
For more details about this bug, please see https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-p … 1d402cff3c.
Almost all packages are affected by this bug, I'm afraid that we have to rebuild all packages in our repository.
Another big problem is that the version of LibreSSL is so old that it cannot support TLSv1.3.
For a distribution which emphasizes security, this is absolutely unacceptable!
Finally, hyperbola-milky-way-v0.4*-dual.iso does not contain the package cryptsetup.
Without that package in the live ISO image, we cannot made a fresh encrypted installation and we cannot decrypt our previously encrypted drive too.
Hope the aforementioned problems will be solved in v0.4.3.