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

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Richard Braakman <dark@xs4all.nl> writes:

> 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.
> 
> Richard Braakman

No, I don't assume that. The du files could be all kept in
packages.du.bz2 or there could be a package.du.bz2 for each
packjage. Since they are reasonable small ~70 KB for ALL of main,
downloading a packages.du.bz2 is quick. Compared to the big
Packages.gz you would hardy notice the small delay.

May the Source be with you.
			Goswin