On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > thank you for your prompt response. that's quite reassuring. ;-) best regards,
