Re: `du' control files

[Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:

> > Any contrary positions?
> 
>  This "du" file is completely redundant. And it should be a bug in avery
> package that contains it.
> 
>  What would be it use? Well... for installed packages you may just perform a
> 'du -c $(/var/lib/dpkg/info/package.list)'.
>  When faced with this argument people said: "ok.. but wht about uninstalled
> poackages? Deity (when it finally descends to the earth) would be able to
> scan the tar file to extract this "du" control file!" If this program has to
> scan the tar to see if the program fits in the HD... why can't it do a "dpkg
> -c package.deb"?.
[snip]

Note, that control files (such as `du') can be extracted without having
tar unpacking and uncompressing the whole file. Thus, having a du file is
a lot faster than running `dpkg -c package.deb'.


Thanks,

Chris

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