Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:43:28 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami) To: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Cc: ac199@hwcn.org, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Concurrent package making allowed? Message-ID: <199806262343.QAA09289@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> In-Reply-To: <199806262003.WAA00689@semyam.dinoco.de> (message from Stefan Eggers on Fri, 26 Jun 1998 22:03:18 %2B0200)
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FWIW, this is how I think it should be done:
(1) A new mandatory file pkg/SIZE, containing the number of bytes
required by the installation, to be submitted by the porter. Like
files/md5, there is a target in bsd.port.mk to create it (probably
via pkg_create, like you suggested). Maybe another target in
bsd.port.mk to verify it, but it has to ignore a difference of a
few bytes (few Kbytes?).
(2) A new field in ports/INDEX containing all the sizes of all ports.
(3) New option to pkg_create to calculate the size and print it out
to stdout. Also another option to put the size file in the
package itself. A new option to pkg_info to print the size out
(in bytes) to stdout, as well as maybe mods to pretty-print it
with the rest of the stuff.
(4) sysinstall uses new field in ports/INDEX to do whatever nice
things for the user (for instance, to warn they are about to
exhaust their disk space by installing ktamaga which pulls in a
whole bunch of kde stuff).
Satoshi
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