Re: Packaging _still_ wasteful for many large packages

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 01:52:57AM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
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>I've written a trivial shell script (attached) that I've run against

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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#!/bin/sh

MIRROR=/mirror/debian
TMP_EXTRACT=~/tmp/size-check

FILES=`find $MIRROR/pool -type f -size +10485760c -name *.deb | grep -v all.deb`

rm -rf $TMP_EXTRACT
for FILE in $FILES
do
    mkdir $TMP_EXTRACT
    dpkg --extract $FILE $TMP_EXTRACT
    SIZE=`du -s $TMP_EXTRACT/usr/share | awk '{print $1}'`
    if [ $SIZE -gt 1000 ] ; then
        echo "$SIZE $FILE"
    fi
    rm -rf $TMP_EXTRACT
done

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