Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 10:10:15 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: 2.2.6 CD-ROM : Package dependencies up the creek ? Message-ID: <199806190810.KAA29337@semyam.dinoco.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:26:55 PDT." <199806101926.MAA05119@bubba.whistle.com>
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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
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.
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