Re: Bug#37999: du -S'ing the archive (was: Re: weekly policy summary)
On 7 Aug 1999, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> I think you misunderstand. "without any modification to any
> existing packages, and hence policy.". As I read it, that means that
> no packages need be modified, and thus this is not policy. And such is
> the case.
That's kinda what I thought about this, but it was being pushed on the
policy list so I thought I'd say something.
> Jason> Somebody should sit down and write all the scripts and
> Jason> modifications needed before trying to mandate this with policy
> Jason> - besides a disk usage index does not really strike me as
> Jason> something belonging in the policy domain.
>
> The scripts and all have been written -- all that is in the
> proposal. The only thing needed is to modify dinstall, and then the
> package selection/installation tools.
Well, I haven't seen a patch to modify dinstall and I haven't seen a patch
to modify dselect+apt either - so there is definately lots of work to
still be done by someone.
I also tend to disagree with including a du -s list in the control tar,
the archive scripts can be made to generate such a list on the fly at the
same time they generate the contents file.
Jason
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