pkg upgrade?

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Mon Dec 3 20:53:05 UTC 2012


On 03/12/2012 18:18, Walter Hurry wrote:
> I wonder if there is some kind of overflow problem with the calculations 
> on larger packages?

It's not an overflow: the size is stored as the ascii representation of
an integer value in the pkg tarball and read into an int64_t variable
(good for file sizes up to exabyte scales) and stored in sqlite columns
equivalent in size to that.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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