On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > Any contrary positions? > > This "du" file is completely redundant. And it should be a bug in avery > package that contains it. > > What would be it use? Well... for installed packages you may just perform a > 'du -c $(/var/lib/dpkg/info/package.list)'. > When faced with this argument people said: "ok.. but wht about uninstalled > poackages? Deity (when it finally descends to the earth) would be able to > scan the tar file to extract this "du" control file!" If this program has to > scan the tar to see if the program fits in the HD... why can't it do a "dpkg > -c package.deb"?. [snip]
Note, that control files (such as `du') can be extracted without having tar unpacking and uncompressing the whole file. Thus, having a du file is a lot faster than running `dpkg -c package.deb'. Thanks, Chris -- Christian Schwarz [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian has a logo! [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Check out the logo PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA pages at http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-logo/