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authorPatrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@libiquity.com>2019-03-18 12:37:16 (EDT)
committer Patrick McDermott <patrick.mcdermott@libiquity.com>2019-03-18 12:37:16 (EDT)
commit0927246d5c509e38fb06545bb2bed5483bda4307 (patch)
tree2f89851cae518419dfccc85a81ea38077023ed46
parent64cb6e4f9e37f8fd50292e7d19241eb8a30b92de (diff)
ob-gencontrol: Add more details to size comment
-rw-r--r--src/ob-gencontrol.sh4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/ob-gencontrol.sh b/src/ob-gencontrol.sh
index eeb8e47..5d8b397 100644
--- a/src/ob-gencontrol.sh
+++ b/src/ob-gencontrol.sh
@@ -59,6 +59,10 @@ gen_control()
# kibibytes in its determination of whether the package's data will fit
# on the system:
# pkg_size_kbs = (pkg->installed_size + 1023)/1024;
+ # (from libopkg/opkg_install.c line 245)
+ # (still in upstream as of 2019-02-25, libopkg/opkg_install.c:118)
+ # In other words, if a package declares an installed size of 10 KiB,
+ # opkg checks for 10 MiB of available space.
# TODO: Further investigate opkg's disk space calculation and, if
# necessary, patch opkg and submit a bug report.
inst_size=$(((${inst_size} + 1023) / 1024))