FS#15472 - pacman -Qu always reports 0 download size

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by shapeshifter (shapeshifter) - Friday, 10 July 2009, 13:25 GMT
Last edited by Xavier (shining) - Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 09:40 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan McGee (toofishes)
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.2.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

I find it quite daft that when one does:

$ pacman -Qu

it will output something like:

...
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 66.74 MB

The total download size should not be 0. I asked in #archlinux and someone said that in this "pacman -Qu" transaction, nothing gets downloaded, that's why it's zero. But infact nothing gets installed either, so argueing this way, the total installed size would also be 0. In the end, pacman -Qu loses a lot of informational value with total download size always reporting 0. It should report the proper size which would be downloaded in case one would do pacman -Su, just like it reports the installed size it would need. E.g. like with pacman -Su:

...
Total Download Size: 25.72 MB
Total Installed Size: 66.74 MB

I don't see why this would not be a bug.
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Closed by  Xavier (shining)
Wednesday, 15 July 2009, 09:40 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:  dup of  FS#12866 
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Saturday, 11 July 2009, 00:25 GMT
-Qu won't even look like this in 3.3; the output has changed a lot and it acts more like the rest of the filters.

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