127758 - Installer requesting 5x amount of space needed (122M)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Chris McAfee]

I tried an install of 2/25 windows commercial nightly build (trunk, Setup.exe)
on a machine that only had 40M or so free, and kept getting not-enough-space
errors from the installer.  The number it wanted was ! 122M.  I freed
up about 96M and still it complained.  Confused, I back-tracked and re-installed
6.2.1, worked fine.  I think the number 6.2.1 posted was something like 22M.

Windows 2000, if that helps.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

We *do* take up more space. My 6.2.1 installation dir is 20M, my MachV dir with
equivalent options is 25M. The installer must ask for additional space to
contain the downloaded archives during the install, plus working space to
uncompress each archive in turn.

The one number that really stands out, though, is that a recent config.ini lists
the "Installer Size" of the new JRE as 71Mb just by itself. Whoa! Everything
else combined added up to 58Mb. We did get a new JRE compared to 6.2, but that
still sounds like a lot.

Please try this on a Mozilla build and see if it's this far out of line. I
suspect this is a commercial-only problem due to mis-estimating the space
required of the 3rd party add-ons.

Comment 2

[Chris McAfee]

I installed a mozilla trunk build just prior to the netscape build, no problems.
I would have run into the 122M problem at that point for sure, I hadn't
been warned about space at all and had not made any room before the mozilla
install.

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

not a mozilla bug. JRE is Netscape only

Comment 4

[Chris McAfee]

reopening, to make sure we get a netscape bug filed on this.
I really don't want to lose information here.  dveditz?

Comment 5

[Curt Patrick (gone)]

Dan is away for the week.  I opened bugscape bug 12398 to track this.  Dan can
transfer any specific info he wants over to that bug when he gets back.

Comment 6

[K'Trina Medina]

Verified invalid. Moved to bugscape. Thanks Curt!