On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 09:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i don't recall seeing this behaviour before: > > $ yum info coreutils > Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit > Installed Packages > Name : coreutils > Arch : i386 > Version : 6.10 > Release : 27.fc9 > Size : 10 M > Repo : installed > Summary : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts > URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ > License : GPLv3+ > Description: These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the > : old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages. > > Available Packages > Name : coreutils > Arch : i386 > Version : 6.10 > Release : 27.fc9 > Size : 4.4 M > Repo : updates > Summary : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts > URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ > License : GPLv3+ > Description: These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of the > : old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages. > > this seems to be happening no matter which installed package i > query. thoughts? Look at the Repo line in each record. What you are seeing is the actual installed size (10M) versus the downloadable package size (4.4M). RPM packages are compressed. If the package wasn't installed, you'd only see the repo record. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list