From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 10 12:29:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21782 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:29:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA21361 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id MAA15576; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:27:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com(207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma015574; Wed Jun 10 12:26:56 1998 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA05119; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:26:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <199806101926.MAA05119@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? In-Reply-To: <199806101537.LAA04377@geek.grf.ov.com> from The Classiest Man Alive at "Jun 10, 98 11:29:10 am" To: ksmm@threespace.com (The Classiest Man Alive) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message