Shawn Walker wrote: > 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 >
My expectation is that the consumer here would interface at the API level. Dave
