On 01/26/2011 11:38 PM, Michael K. Johnson wrote:
> So to get the real size of the installed packages on a particular
> filesystem, you need to get the troves, with files (but without
> file contents), only single-count hardlink groups, and then use
> an algorithm that takes into account particular filesystem features.
> (Then, depending on your goals, you might want to add some room for
> the Conary database, and then some more fudge for conary rollbacks.)
> This is rather expensive processing compared to looking up a value
> that is just the sum of the sizes of the files.  It also requires
> python programming, or installing individual components into a
> temporary chroot...

Thanks, Michael. That's indeed helpful. As said, we will look into this
issue after the 2.5 release. Let's see if we can come up with some
better data then.

jesse
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