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#1 2014-02-03 09:10:10
- rubenvb
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How come "pacman -Syu" usually shows a negative next upgrade size?
I'm used to updates being bigger than the original, or at least equal in size.
The past half year, all my updates on different systems have usually been decreasing in size. I don't think pacman deletes old versions of packages in its cache unless I explicitly do that myself.
So, how come?
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#2 2014-02-03 09:15:41
- Kartious
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Re: How come "pacman -Syu" usually shows a negative next upgrade size?
Just because the package it updated doesn't mean the size will increase. The integrity of the package is changed to a new version that is released onto the repos, so you can get packages that have been updated that are smaller in size to the original package.
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#3 2014-02-03 12:26:50
- karol
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Re: How come "pacman -Syu" usually shows a negative next upgrade size?
Maybe some old unused / broken code has been removed? Have you checked upstream?
In some cases a different way of packaging stuff resulted in huge differences in size.
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#4 2014-02-03 15:52:25
- Scimmia
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Re: How come "pacman -Syu" usually shows a negative next upgrade size?
The devs have been removing static libs and libtool files from the packages when they're not needed.
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#5 2014-02-03 17:07:23
- karol
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Re: How come "pacman -Syu" usually shows a negative next upgrade size?
The devs have been removing static libs and libtool files from the packages when they're not needed.
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 25454.html
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 25542.html
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#6 2014-02-03 17:38:39
- alphaniner
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Re: How come "pacman -Syu" usually shows a negative next upgrade size?
I don't think pacman deletes old versions of packages in its cache unless I explicitly do that myself.
FTR, the cache is completely unrelated to upgrade size.
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