Re: debian archive disk space requirements.

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 04:27:57PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

 > And people allways say that 64 Bit archs need much bigger executables.
 > 
 > Somehow alpha saves 328MB compared to i386 and a suggested 30-50% size
 > increase on binaries would mean a lot of packages are not available on
 > alpha, which isn't true.

 Interesting theory...

 architecture |    size    | count
--------------+------------+-------
 mipsel       | 2531507858 |  7022
 mips         | 2569942598 |  7041
 m68k         | 2571810596 |  7267
 arm          | 2667813072 |  7272
 s390         | 2713124396 |  7259
 sparc        | 2740423638 |  7292
 hppa         | 2850080658 |  7104
 powerpc      | 2996108486 |  7379
 alpha        | 3050200486 |  7283
 i386         | 3378532922 |  7889
 ia64         | 3394287226 |  7204

 Funny that the count difference is so large... let me double check:

mmagallo@auric:dists$ zcat testing{,-proposed-updates}/{main,contrib,non-free}/binary-alpha/Packages.gz | grep-dctrl -s Package -F Architecture -v all | wc -l
   7283
mmagallo@auric:dists$ zcat testing{,-proposed-updates}/{main,contrib,non-free}/binary-i386/Packages.gz | grep-dctrl -s Package -F Architecture -v all | wc -l
   7889

 Yup.

-- 
Marcelo