Bug 23866
Summary: | Strange package size... plz check! | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <iq-0> |
Component: | glibc | Assignee: | Jakub Jelinek <jakub> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.0 | CC: | fweimer |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-01-12 15:34:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Need Real Name
2001-01-12 14:22:14 UTC
The former glibc package was split into glibc and glibc-common (the reason behind this is to save space, because glibc-common can be shared between e.g. i386 and i686, alpha and alphaev6, sparc and sparcv9). glibc-2.2-9.i386.rpm was ~13M, glibc-2.2-12.i386.rpm is ~4.5M and glibc-common-2.2-12.i386.rpm is ~6M, so the actual size difference is not that big and is caused by hardlinking identical /usr/lib/locale/ data files between various locales (that saved ~20M in the installed size and ~2.5M in the rpm). Oh, one more thing, if you want to install a bugfree glibc, I'm afraid you'll have to wait forever, software package of this size will never be bugfree. I can just assure you this package was tested by myself and our QA and seems to be ok. Who was talking about bugfree software? I don't expect bugfree software, because there is no such thing as bugfree software. It performs okay, but software is never finished and will always run in to bugs somewhere up the road. Just being cautious with software updates for some of my systems. |