Dave Miner wrote: > I think this needs to be viewed as a hard requirement on IPS to provide > an API. Any answer you choose without that API is wrong in some > context. Without it, I'd think the manifest should explicitly state the > required size (the default manifest we ship might use the above number, > though, but it would be more obvious to the user then how to alter this).
Adding access to this information for python API consumers should be relatively trivial. However, I would remind users specifying the size in the manifest, that unless specific versions of all of the packages being installed have been given, and unless the manifest is for a specific architecture (I don't know if AI allows sharing manifests among architectures) that this can vary greatly. Providing this information to cli consumers is a lot more problematic from a parse-able output viewpoint. This RFE covers this particular issue: 7736 image plan should provide space requirements for operation Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
