Re: On adding size info to Packages files [very long]
On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Raul Miller wrote:
> Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
> > How is it possible to check for block sizes with lintian? And what do you
> > expect a maintainer to do if they use a different block size and lintian
> > dislikes that? Reformat?
>
> To deal with block sizes we'll need to abandon (or upgrade) du.
>
> To find out what block sizes are for a file system, use statfs (or
> fstatfs). This mostly matters on the target system, not where we're
> running lintian (which perhaps was Joey's point).
>
> A brutally simplistic mechanism for representing the data would
> provide a different sizes file for each different block size
> we support. Optimizations are possible but may not be worth the
> effort.
Is du -k not the answer?
Or am I misunderstanding you?
Jules
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