Opened 14 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#25711 closed defect (wontfix)

pkg reported space requirements do not include ports tree

Reported by: cxjohnson@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Low Milestone:
Component: base Version: 1.9.1
Keywords: Cc:
Port:

Description

The package installer GUI says the install will take something like 132KB (yes, kilobytes, the exact number is lost to my memory but roughly of that magnitude). Yet the actual install takes about 65MB!

I think I know why, but it sure would be nice if that first number were not so misleading, or if there were text elsewhere in the GUI saying that more files would be installed and what the real size would approximately be.

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Component: portsbase
Keywords: installer package GUI Leopard removed
Summary: Leopard installer reports false space usage numberpkg reported space requirements do not include ports tree

comment:2 Changed 14 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

So yeah, the pkg itself probably does only install 132 kB or whatever, but then the postflight script downloads the ports tree.

comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

The pkg installer only shows the size of the files contained in the installer itself. There is nothing we can do about this.

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