On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 17:54 +0200, drago01 wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Justin Conover > <justin.conover@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 34MB it still takes > > time, but .deb is 50MB cheaper that the .rpm. > > you are comparing two different packages (2.0.4 and 2.4) There's a few other problems with a direct comparison of sizes because they are two packages called "core" with somewhat differing content. The Debian "core" package depends on a "common" package which is an additional 27megs in size. The content of both of these is included in the single Fedora "core" rpm. Additionally the default help content is included in the Fedora "core" rpm, which is available in the deb packages as help-en_US, which is another additional 11 megs. Additionally displaying help itself requires the use of the core writer libraries to render the html help, in Debian this means that the "writer" package is a dependency of help, and that's an additional 6megs in size in its .deb. While in Fedora writer is split into the optional bits called "writer" and the core required for use by help. Shrinking the "writer" rpm by approx 3 megs, and inflating the "core" one by the same. To manually extract the various contents for side-by-side comparison you can use rpm2cpio something.rpm | cpio -ivd vs ar x something.rpm tar xzf data.tar.gz C. -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
