From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jun 17 23:37:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27683 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:37:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27676 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id QAA16036; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:06:37 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199806180636.QAA16036@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of a port... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jun 1998 07:59:36 +0200." <199806180559.HAA18593@rfhs8028.fh-regensburg.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:06:34 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > You have to have it before you can see how big it will be :) > > A seperate info file about each package would be better.. Maybe.. > How about generating pkg_create generate this information automatically > and putting it into the port's +CONTENTS file. Then teach pkg_info some > "give me the size of a port" option to retrieve it, which will then > work for installed and uninstalled packages, of the latter not caring > if they are on the local machine or available via some ftp:// URL. Yeah, sounds more sensible.. Probably should have dependecy info too.. So you can go 'tell me how much space it will use to install this' - Which would depend on wether it used libraries etc.. *that* would rock =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message