Re: On adding size info to Packages files [very long]
Hi,
>>"Brederlow" == Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de> writes:
Brederlow> I mean, that when a package is installed, that the
Brederlow> recorded du tree (which is needed to calculate the size
Brederlow> increase/decrease for updates) could be trimmed to what
Brederlow> the users system reflects. The users system setup should
Brederlow> be scanned and kept in a status file for speed reasons
Brederlow> (trying all dirs for symlinks takes time) and then
Brederlow> trimming should be fairly easy and save a lot of space. It
Brederlow> would save the more the smaler (less partitions) the
Brederlow> system is.
You have a point. Hmm. The sizes file I haegv been talking
about is analogous to the Packages/available file; we also need the
analogue of the Status file, and it may make sense to coalesce the
data down in the Sizes.installed file.
However, that would make the handling of newly created
partitions impossible (I created /usr/lib when my /usr partition was
in danger of running out of space). Once coalesced down, there is no
easy way of recreating the data; and since the installed Sizes file
is of the order of 100k compressed, and the savings are unlikly to be
more than 30-40k, I still think we should not discard data.
Correct operation is worth more than 40k ;-)
manoj
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