Mercurial 1.2.1

[Paul Boddie]

On 07/10/11 12:52, Tom Anderson wrote:
> On 3 October 2011 11:14, Paul Boddie<paul.boddie at biotek.uio.no>  wrote:
>> On 01/10/11 12:36, Frank A. Kingswood wrote:
>>
>>> Note that if one does not have access to /usr/local, limited disk space
>>> quota and limited network access then installing Python is problematic.
>>
>> You don't need access to /usr/local - just change the prefix to somewhere
>> you can access. As for limited space and network access, both of those
>> things are also likely to affect whether you can install Mercurial as well.
>
> Hmm:
>
> $ rpm -ql python python-libs | xargs du -hsc | tail -1
> 73M	total
> $ rpm -ql mercurial | xargs du -hsc | tail -1
> 11M	total
>
> That's quite a difference.

$ rpm -ql python-libs | xargs du -shc | tail -n 1
1.9M    total
$ rpm -ql mercurial | xargs du -shc | tail -n 1
15M     total

Yes, but probably not Python's fault in this case. My numbers are coming 
from RHEL 6.1, by the way. And you can, of course, configure Python to 
be smaller if necessary.

Paul