Bug#37999: PROPOSED]: A pre-install required space checking mechanism for Debian packages

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Richard Braakman wrote:
> Is a pregenerated du file necessary?  You already assume that you have
> the package at hand, so you might as well collect size information from
> the package directly.  That way, you can also handle differences in block
> sizes.  And it means that you don't have to change every package.

[ This was all discussed before, about 6 months (?) ago. I don't really want
to rehash that discussion.. but.. ]

Well collecting the data from the package does impose a delay because you
have to unpack each file in it. That may or may not be acceptable.

Of course this does lead into one weakness in Manoj's proposal: since the
info is not in the Packages file, you must still download the whole set of
packages before you can be told if they'll all fit on your system.

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