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Bug 64949

Summary:	glibc-common package ain't so big
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Need Real Name <d-lewart>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	7.3	CC:	katzj
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=20020117092849.J12158@eastham.redhat.com
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Description Need Real Name 2002-05-14 23:53:27 UTC

Description of Problem:
* The glibc-common RPM cleverly uses hard links and PartialHardlinkSets
* This makes the package installer wildly overstate the package size
* This will needlessly scare people with small disk drives
* It causes the "Time Remaining" values to too small


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How Reproducible:
* Install Red Hat Linux 7.3


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Red Hat Linux 7.3 ...
2. Select only English as the language
3. Watch the pretty "Installing Packages" display


Actual Results:
* It says glibc-common has a size of 182,860 KBytes


Expected Results:
* glibc-common should have a size of ~10,588 KBytes


Additional Information:
* How is package size calculated anyway?
* Even if it is too difficult to calculate the package size based on
  the selected languages, it should be possible to estimate it based
  on the number of languages.

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2002-07-02 05:46:18 UTC

We're just using the size tag in the packages

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2002-07-02 13:26:15 UTC

The package size is the sum of all
the file sizes, ignoring hardlinks.

The actual installed package size depends on
install parameters such as desired locales
and cannot be computed at build time.

Sure estimates are possible, the current estimate
of the installed package size is the sum of all
the file sizes, ignoring hardlinks :-)