On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:55:40PM +0100, Fran�ois Pons wrote: > Jochen Schoenfelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The size of total downloaded package is around 27Mo. > > > But urpmi has calculed 53Mo. > > > Why is a difference between these two numbers ? shouldn't be equal ? > > Size to download == 27Mo. > > Installed (and unpacked) Size == 53Mo. > > > > hope this is right... > > This is right. > > urpmi counts size of package (but uncompressed) but there is a bug, it doesn't > substract package size that will be removed (it let rpm do it for its checking), > this means you don't have to wory about not having 53Mo of free space, but you > need some free space for unpacking archive (old files not destroyed at this > stage, for allowing rollback).
It would be nice if urpmi could count both uncompressed and compressed. In that way I could see how much I need to download, and how much it would be on my harddisk. Keld
