James Antill wrote:
On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:52 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
I'm bothered by the differences in their sizes. This list makes it easier to see relevant points:
As Akemi said there is more than just "one size" for an rpm, the UI value displayed is almost always "what the user wants to see" ... but it falls down if you try and compare installed and not-installed sizes using it.
If you want to know how to compare them, or what the different values mean I've tried to write it up so it's understandable:
Okay, I've downloaded the "short" kernel. It's filesize is (about) what yum reported, when I interrogated the downloaded rpm with rpm its size is more in line with the others: [root@tpMail yum.repos.d]# rpm -qip kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.centos.plus.i686.rpm Name : kernel Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 2.6.18 Vendor: CentOS Release : 92.1.10.el5.centos.plus Build Date: Fri 08 Aug 2008 02:15:09 AM WST Install Date: (not installed) Build Host: builder16.centos.org Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM: kernel-2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.centos.plus.src.rpm Size : 44636846 License: GPLv2 Signature : DSA/SHA1, Fri 08 Aug 2008 05:47:19 AM WST, Key ID a8a447dce8562897 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. [root@tpMail yum.repos.d]#