On 15 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Christian> Let me summarize this discussion so far: There is a good
> Christian> use for the `du' control files but there isn't yet a script
> Christian> to do something useful with these files, right?
>
> Doing the du when one does not know the setup on the
> target machine is useless. I think that if at all required, the tool
> should look into /etc/fstab (on the end machine), find out the mount
> points (following symlinks and all) and then run du on the package.
[snip]
I can't follow you here. Where are they useless without knowing the
filesystem structure?
Consider a future version of deity which checks out /etc/fstab, reads in
the du files, sums up the du entries according to the local filesystem
structure, and opens a nice dialog window which displays the disk space
usage for each selected package--splitted up into the local filesystem
structure.
Of course, this all is still `science fiction' since there is currently no
tool to use the du files. With that, you are definitely right that they
are just wasted disk space.
So, does everyone here agree that we explicitely forbid the use of `du'
files (and check this via lintian bug reports)?
Thanks,
Chris
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