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



Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> This could be done along with the contents scan, it would take a bit of
> coding to do as you would have to also implement caching and probably a
> custom tar reader..

Note that Lintian uses the output of tar -tv directly.  The only problem
is that you have to undo tar's filename mangling, which Lintian doesn't
bother to do.  Overall it works fine.

Richard Braakman


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