[oe] package installed_size field
Koen Kooi
k.kooi at student.utwente.nl
Fri Apr 23 15:37:46 UTC 2010
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On 23-04-10 16:41, Jens Erdmann wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I have a question in package creation. In my build process i create ipkg
> packages and i don't understand, how the installed_size has to be
> detected and where it will be set. My first idea were the
> package_ipkg.bbclass but it's missing there. How do you manage this?
Historically we don't handle this, because in opkg "installed_size" is
not tightly defined, so when installing it on e.g. compressed ubifs the
*actual* installed size is usually less than the size on e.g. ext2. The
fear was that package managers would refuse to install e.g. a 30MB text
file when ubifs reports 29MB free, even if that file would only occupy
3MB of actual space.
That's the background, I personally would like to include that (the
"uncompressed image size") info in the package, but I am unsure what the
implications are of that when using a recent opkg.
regards,
Koen
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