On 19/03/12 13:40, Auguste Pop wrote: > hi, > > somtimes the installed size information is simply wrong.e > > $ pacman -Si thunderbird > Repository : extra > Name : thunderbird > Version : 11.0-1 > ...... > Download Size : 15409.89 KiB > Installed Size : 7968.00 KiB > Architecture : x86_64 > > $ xz -l thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz > Strms Blocks Compressed Uncompressed Ratio Check Filename > 1 1 15.0 MiB 40.0 MiB 0.376 CRC64 > thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz > > $ mkdir thunderbird && tar xf thunderbird-11.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz -C > thunderbird && du -sh thunderbird > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.fflags' > 41M thunderbird > > the installed size should be around 40M while pacman and the package > website show only about 8M. > > best regards, > Known issue for which a fix is either on the way or committed... Note that these sizes are only for informational purposes and not used in (e.g.) disk space checking. Allan
