Bug#208201: marked as done (apt: when upgrading, wrong occupied space is shown)
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From: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>
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Subject: apt: when upgrading, wrong occupied space is shown
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
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The last time I run `apt dselect-upgrade', I noticed that the additional
space occupied computed by apt was wrong. I did not take notes, but I
can approximately say that I was installing about 40MB worth of
packages, and removing about 20 MB worth of packages.
apt told me that I was going to use an additional 40 MB of space, but
that was wrong, and in fact `df' showed approximately 20 MB less of free
space at the end of the process (which is what I expected).
It looked like apt was not considering the size of the removed packages.
Sorry for not reporting exact numbers, but that was a thing that I
noticed only after the installation process was finished.
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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org>, 208201-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#208201: apt: when upgrading, wrong occupied space is shown
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Previously Francesco Potorti` wrote:
> Sorry for not reporting exact numbers, but that was a thing that I
> noticed only after the installation process was finished.
apt and any other tool will always be incorrect when trying to estimate
the amount of diskpace that will be used for a package. While the
differences you got are large, they are nog totally unexpected when
dealing with packages with a large number of files.
Wichert.
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