[ATrpms-users] Re: 250 MB Will Be Freed?

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 06:47:30PM +0000, ggalt at comcast.net wrote:
> Axel:
> 
> Yeah, upgrading openoffice gives the following.  The download does
> occur from kde-redhat.atrpms.net.  Do you really think it was simply
> the removal of debugging information?

Better ask the experts, so I'm copying Rex on this. :)

> George
> 
> # apt-get install openoffice
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Selecting openoffice.org for 'openoffice'
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   openoffice.org openoffice.org-i18n openoffice.org-libs
> The following packages will be upgraded
>   openoffice.org openoffice.org-i18n openoffice.org-libs
> 3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 33 not upgraded.
> Need to get 171MB of archives.
> After unpacking 251MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Get:1 http://kde-redhat.atrpms.net all/stable openoffice.org-i18n 0:1.1.3-10.0.k
> de [77.4MB]
> Get:2 http://kde-redhat.atrpms.net 3/stable openoffice.org 0:1.1.3-10.0.3.kde [5
> 0.1MB]
> Get:3 http://kde-redhat.atrpms.net 3/stable openoffice.org-libs 0:1.1.3-10.0.3.k
> de [44.0MB]
> Fetched 168MB in 10m56s (256kB/s)
> Committing changes...
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>    1:openoffice.org-libs    ########################################### [ 33%]
>    2:openoffice.org-i18n    ########################################### [ 67%]
>    3:openoffice.org         ########################################### [100%]
> Done.
> 
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:54:35PM +0000, ggalt at comcast.net wrote:
> > > Axel:
> > > 
> > > Just a touch of nervousness here on my part.  I went to do a
> > > "dist-upgrade" this morning and got the message below, which says
> > > its going to download 238MB and after unpacking 250MB of disk space
> > > will be freed.  That seemed like a lot of "something" going away!  
> > > 
> > > Am I simply being paranoid?  What has shrunk so significantly?
> > 
> > Try apt-get install on each package to get finer grained
> > information. Perhaps some larger package was rebuilt w/o debug
> > information.
> > 
> > My bets would be that the savings come from openoffice. Are you using
> > kde-redhat?
> > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > George
> > > 
> > > 
> > > #apt-get dist-upgrade
> > > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > > Calculating Upgrade... Done
> > > The following packages will be upgraded
> > >   DCC apt e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-devel gaim gftp glibc glibc-common glibc-devel
> > >   glibc-headers k3b libiec61883 libmyth mysql mysql-devel mysql-server mythtv
> > >   mythtv-backend mythtv-frontend mythtv-themes mythtvsetup nptl-devel nscd
> > >   openjade openoffice.org openoffice.org-i18n openoffice.org-libs
> > >   perl-Term-ReadKey selinux-policy-targeted subversion system-config-printer
> > >   system-config-printer-gui util-linux wireless-tools words yum
> > > 36 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
> > > Need to get 238MB of archives.
> > > After unpacking 250MB disk space will be freed.
> > > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
> > > Abort.
> 

> Subject: Re: 250 MB Will Be Freed?
> From: Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at atrpms.net>
> To: ggalt at comcast.net
> Cc: atrpms-users at atrpms.net
> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:55:27 +0000
> 

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