Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:06:34 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Size of a port... Message-ID: <199806180636.QAA16036@cain.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jun 1998 07:59:36 %2B0200." <199806180559.HAA18593@rfhs8028.fh-regensburg.de>
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> > You have to have it before you can see how big it will be :) > > A seperate info file about each package would be better.. Maybe.. > How about generating pkg_create generate this information automatically > and putting it into the port's +CONTENTS file. Then teach pkg_info some > "give me the size of a port" option to retrieve it, which will then > work for installed and uninstalled packages, of the latter not caring > if they are on the local machine or available via some ftp:// URL. Yeah, sounds more sensible.. Probably should have dependecy info too.. So you can go 'tell me how much space it will use to install this' - Which would depend on wether it used libraries etc.. *that* would rock =) --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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