From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 19 07:46:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24320 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:46:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA24288 for ; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id QAA03831 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 16:43:26 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29337; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:10:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199806190810.KAA29337@semyam.dinoco.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:26:55 PDT." <199806101926.MAA05119@bubba.whistle.com> Cc: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:10:15 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 do it (it's a considerable effort after all) or is it unlikely that such a thing would get included in 2.2.7/2.2.8 or at least 3.0? > > 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 }' If the resulting data gets on CD for use by sysinstall it's OK I think. Something like INDEX but with sizes of the packages in it. Doing it on the machine one installs on is IMHO not the right idea as those who are going to use these numbers the most due to small disks are also most likely having a slow CPU. For example I have a 386/33 (with faulty and thus switched off cache!) which is quite useable for text editing (even with emacs 19), mail reading and could work as a slow X terminal when it gets enough room for installing X11. There this procedure would be too slow even for patient people. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message