Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:26:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: ksmm@threespace.com (The Classiest Man Alive) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? Message-ID: <199806101926.MAA05119@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199806101537.LAA04377@geek.grf.ov.com> from The Classiest Man Alive at "Jun 10, 98 11:29:10 am"
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The Classiest Man Alive writes:
> >- no progress meters for pkg_add, just a message that it is "running"
> >- whilst byte counts are shown, there's no %
>
> Let me handle this one, Jordan. I assume this ties back to the fact that
> it's difficult/impossible to determine a package's install size before
> installation.
Possibly stupid question: why not estimate it with:
gzip --list tarball.tgz | tail -1 | awk '{ print $2 }'
? Better yet, there should be a way to do this directly using libz.
-Archie
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