Re: Please don't remove size info from pkgs.
Manoj Srivastava writes:
> If packages were to include a du -S output (unlike the du -s
> output included by some helper packages before), this script, a
> modification of Kai' script, could be used to gather the data. This
> has yet to be discussed and passed into policy.
Ah, we finally have a use for this data ;)
However, I would strongly advise not to use a standalone file like old
.du files and .md5sums: the largest part of these files is occupied by
the filenames, which are already profided by .list files.
I'd suggest that we evolve towards a new generic control-file (say
package.fileinfo), that will possibly evolve with time, as need for
new/alternate info arise. As an example, it could look like:
====
# name:md5sum:size
/a/file:236d8059a2244a31aacc8e127e86f5c0:1234
/another/file:236d8059a2244a31aacc8e127e86f5c0:5678
====
In my example, the 1st lines defines what info is contained in the
file. As policy will be involved, it would maybe be more interesting
to list a file-format-version number on this 1st line.
Comments, anyone ?
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