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Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
        Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: package sizes (was: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? )
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 21:50:40 +0200
From: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>
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> > The most important question first: How is the opinion on doing this
> > with a precomputed package size table on the CD?  Would it be worth to

> Depends mostly on how well integrated the creation and actual usage of
> this table was, I guess!  Diffs are always happily reviewed, at least. :)

I am now investigating the possibility of pkg_create doing the size
calculations based on the packing list.  The patch suggested on the
ports mailing list with the "grep <PLIST -v @" obviously can't work
here (the @cwd statements get ignored so the file names are not right
at least for some of the packages) and I think the propper solution
would be this one.

Then I intend to make a file with the size in KByte somewhere.  I set
it to the directory of the port for my experiments and modelled it
after the targets readmes and readme.  That builds a table from the
size files by just concatenating the ones one level below.  The end
result is a table of package name and size in KByte.

And I think this information should be in the package, too as someone
had suggested putting it in the package db to allow estimating how
much space would be freed by deleting a package.

Maybe I get it to work one day.  :-)

Stefan.

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