setsizecvt(1)                                          setsizecvt(1)


       NAME
             setsizecvt - generates files in the space format for sets

       SYNOPSIS
             setsizecvt

       DESCRIPTION
             The setsizecvt command generates files in the space format for
             sets.  Before sets were included as packaging objects, the
             installation tools used space files to specify any additional
             space the packages required, in addition to that listed in the
             entries in that package's pkgmap file.

             The setsizecvt command was designed to be as simple as
             possible; the packaging tools process the sets in much the
             same way they process packages.

             Executing in a set's installation directory, setsizecvt
             collects the space file (if it exists) and the setsize file
             from each of the packages included in that set.  The setsize
             file is a file whose entries are formatted as follows:

                   pkg:/path/name    #blks #inodes

             where pkg is the short form of the package name, and the rest
             is the directory and number of blocks and inodes used in that
             directory.  This setsize file is created when the sets are
             created.  Typically, the setsize file for a given set would be
             created from the pkgmap files for all of the packages in that
             set.

             setsizecvt selects those entries in the setsize file for
             packages (in the current set) that the user wants to install.
             Those entries are then collected in a new file called space.

             pkgadd uses the space file to see if there is enough space on
             the disk to install the set.  The space file for a set is
             treated the same way as it is in a package.

       REFERENCES
             space(4)







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