[arch-general] package information error

[Allan McRae]

On 19/03/12 13:40, Auguste Pop wrote:
> hi,
> 
> somtimes the installed size information is simply wrong.e
> 
> $ pacman -Si thunderbird
> Repository     : extra
> Name           : thunderbird
> Version        : 11.0-1
> ......
> Download Size  : 15409.89 KiB
> Installed Size : 7968.00 KiB
> Architecture   : x86_64
> 
> $ xz -l thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> Strms  Blocks   Compressed Uncompressed  Ratio  Check   Filename
>     1       1     15.0 MiB     40.0 MiB  0.376  CRC64
> thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
> 
> $ mkdir thunderbird && tar xf thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -C
> thunderbird && du -sh thunderbird
> tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags'
> 41M	thunderbird
> 
> the installed size should be around 40M while pacman and the package
> website show only about 8M.
> 
> best regards,
> 

Known issue for which a fix is either on the way or committed...  Note
that these sizes are only for informational purposes and not used in
(e.g.) disk space checking.

Allan