[RULE] Determine the size of a packetlist

[M. Fioretti]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 21:09:05 PM +0200, Ingo Lantschner
 ingo.lists at vum.at  wrote:

> 
> Provided: Redhat 9 installed system, with rpmdb from FC3-test or FC2
> installed.  If I have a list of FC3-test-3-rpms, how can I determine
> the size of these packages?!

Maybe some variation of this, to put in a loop on each rpm?

rpm -qi $PACKAGE | grep ^Size | cut -d: -f2 | cut -c1-20

Beware that, for reasons which I read somewhere, but frankly don't
remember anymore, the number you get is not always updated/indicative
of the actual disk space required by the package

Better proposals are welcome. To get an authoritative answer, try
subscribing temporarily, to the low volume rpm list.

HTH,
	Marco

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