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Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.



On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:46:07PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
> 
> While trying to upgrade my Debian Testing system, it shows me a horde of 
> packages that could be upgraded. But take a look at the bottom of this output 
> where it mentions the size et al. The size of the _to_be_fetched_ packages is 
> 227MB, while it is gonna use around 1.5MB of disk-space??
> 
> Kinda weird..I don't understand. I would simply download the single 1.5MB 
> Package, right?

Any chance that the to-be=fetched package is compressed, and it has to 
be uncompressed during installation to be useful?

-- hendrik



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