Re: `du' control files
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On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Scott Ellis wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> > With the new lintian check I discovered that some packages install a `du'
> > control file (contains the output of the du command).
> >
> > Does someone know which program is using these files??
> >
> > If there is no good reason for these files, should we consider this a bug?
> > (IMO, yes.)
>
> They are created by the debhelper program dh_du. They're useful for
> figuring out how much space on each of your filesystems a package is
> taking up, especially useful if one filesystem is getting cramped. Like
> the md5sums file, I wouldn't judge their presence either way.
You may figure out how much space on each of your filesystems a package
is taking up without the need of those files... Just write a program which
uses /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package>.list as the input data.
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