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On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 20:23:21 +0100 |
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"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Am Sonntag, 17. Dezember 2017, 14:21:10 CET schrieb Michał Górny: |
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> > Hello, everyone. |
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> > It's my pleasure to announce that with a majority vote the QA team has |
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> > accepted a new policy. The accepted wording is: |
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> > |
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> > Total size of 'files' subdirectory of a package should not be larger |
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> > than 32 KiB. If the package needs more auxiliary files, they should |
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> > be put into SRC_URI e.g. via tarballs. |
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> > (the total size being computed as a sum of apparent file sizes) |
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> > |
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> This is hard (but not impossible I guess) for toolchain stuff, even though we |
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> have already most patches in external tarballs, since we want to keep some old |
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> versions of packages available. |
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> huettel@pinacolada ~/Gentoo/gentoo/sys-libs/glibc/files $ du -sh . |
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> 152K . |
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Is this the right measure? Actual disk usage will vary depending on |
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block size. For me, this is only 94K. "du -bsh" gives the true byte |
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total as 79K. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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