Clyde reports incorrect sizes

[Daenyth]

daenyth@Bragi ~ $ sudo clyde -S bin32-acroread
:: bin32-acroread package not found, searching for group...
:: bin32-acroread group not found, searching AUR...

==> Installing the following packages from repos

Targets (38): lib32-gtk2-2.18.7-1  lib32-pcre-8.01-1  lib32-libstdc++5-3.3.6-3  
             lib32-libxdamage-1.1.2-1  lib32-libxml2-2.7.6-2  rpmextract-1.0-3  lib32-libtiff-3.9.2-2  
             lib32-atk-1.28.0-1  lib32-pango-1.26.2-1  lib32-libxcursor-1.1.10-1  
             lib32-libxinerama-1.1-1  lib32-libxrandr-1.3.0-1  lib32-libxi-1.3-2  
             lib32-libcups-1.4.2-3  lib32-heimdal-1.3.1-3  lib32-openssl-0.9.8m-2  
             lib32-libxfixes-4.0.4-1  lib32-libjpeg-8.0.1-1  lib32-glib2-2.22.4-1  
             lib32-cairo-1.8.10-1  lib32-libxft-2.1.14-1  lib32-gnutls-2.8.5-1  lib32-libpng-1.4.1-1  
             lib32-e2fsprogs-1.41.10-1  lib32-db-4.8.26-1  lib32-fontconfig-2.8.0-1  
             lib32-pixman-0.16.6-1  lib32-xcb-util-0.3.6-1  lib32-opencdk-0.6.6-1.1  
             lib32-libtasn1-2.4-1  lib32-lzo2-2.03-1  lib32-readline-6.1.002-1  
             lib32-util-linux-ng-2.17.1-1  lib32-expat-2.0.1-5  lib32-freetype2-2.3.12-1  
             lib32-libgcrypt-1.4.5-1  lib32-ncurses-5.7-2  lib32-libgpg-error-1.7-2  

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   29.14 MB

None of the above were already downloaded, and the installed size was wrong also.

[Kiwi]

Due to a limitation in libalpm this is not trivial to fix. I may just remove the information about size. That or I will have to do huge amount of refactoring and it might end up worse off.

[Daenyth]

How is there a limitation when pacman is able to display the correct sizes?

[Kiwi]

Clyde is able to display the correct packages too, in the places pacman does.

In my opinion, and others, as shown in the link at the end of this post, pkg_download_size is broken in libalpm.

The issue is that pkg_download_size() will only report size of packages after a sync_prepare (which is done in trans_prepare(data)) which is done in a different spot and on the list of packages that have been added with alpm_trans_addtarget, which is done before the aur packages and their dependencies are added to the list to be installed and displayed.

http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01319.html

[Daenyth]

Ah, that makes more sense.