[pacman-dev] files and size differ

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 17:06:34 EST 2007


On 3/10/07, Andreas Radke <a.radke at arcor.de> wrote:
> Am Sat, 10 Mar 2007 15:14:02 -0500
> schrieb "Dan McGee" <dpmcgee at gmail.com>:
>
> > Files we knew about as we did remove directory listings from pacman
> > -Ql output. However, this has nothing to do with the output of
> > installed size, which appears to be wrong here. We need to fix this
> > issue, it likely has to do with the wrong size being written to the DB
> > at install time (the compressed size is written instead of an
> > installed size).
> >
>
> Please implement both types of size - compressed + uncompressed.
> Shouldn't be that hard.

Compressed size is worthless here, it does not really apply unless you
are querying a not yet installed package using -Qp. Use -Si for
finding the two sizes of packages in the repositories.

-Dan




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