Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: minor Dear deity!
While downloading a bigger number of source packages generated from a script, I was astonished, that apt wanted to download over 600 MB for approximatly 100 packages. After further investigation I could track this down to this: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/local/rebuild$ apt-cache show xlibmesa-dev xlibs-dev | grep Source | Source: xfree86 | Source: xfree86 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/local/rebuild$ apt-get source xlibmesa-dev xlibs-dev | Reading Package Lists... Done | Building Dependency Tree... Done | Need to get 112MB of source archives. | Get:1 http://localhost unstable/main xfree86 4.1.0-16 (dsc) [1543B] | Get:2 http://localhost unstable/main xfree86 4.1.0-16 (tar) [54.4MB] As you can see, the two packages on the commandline (xlibmesa-dev and xlibs-dev) have the same source (xfree86) which has ~55MB, but this is younted two times for the 'Need to get 112MB of source archives.' line, which is quite confusing. Thank you for your time and work! Regards, David -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux zion 2.4.18-686-smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 14 12:07:19 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_AT Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
