Up2Date "size" column

Will Backman whb at ceimaine.org
Thu Apr 1 14:37:50 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 09:34, Sean Earp wrote:
> Hello All-
> 
> For as long as I can remember, up2date has always put   0k    in the 
> size field for every single package that it offers to update.   If you 
> select multiple updates, it will tell you that it has maybe 7k to 
> download, when in fact you are downloading 80+ MB of packages.   Is 
> there a technological reason for this incorrect representation?  Is 
> there any purpose for having the size field displayed when the 
> information is completely erroneous?  It has been  a problem for so 
> long that I don't know if it should be thrown at bugzilla, or if I (we) 
> should just keep living with it.  Any thoughts?
> 
> -Sean
> 
> 
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> 

I see that also in the graphical up2date.





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