Re: Wheezy release: CDs are not big enough any more...
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:31:47 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 14 mai 2012 à 17:56 -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> > Installed-Size is generated automatically by dpkg-buildpackage, so the
> > only way that you'd get a package without it is by manually creating a
> > package, which nearly no one does. So in practice it's always there,
> > although it might not be a bad idea to make that clear in Policy.
>
> It is a very bad idea to rely on Installed-Size being the same, since
> its value, being computed with du(1) can vary depending on the
> filesystem the package is built upon.
Not anymore since dpkg 1.16.1 which switched dpkg-gencontrol to use
--apparent-size.
regards,
guillem
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