[arch-general] package information error

[Auguste Pop]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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
>

thank you for your prompt response. that's quite reassuring. ;-)

best regards,