| Summary: | Flatpak backend shows incorrect size of updates | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] Discover | Reporter: | Nibaldo G. <nibgonz> |
| Component: | Flatpak Backend | Assignee: | Aleix Pol <aleixpol> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bugseforuns, jgrulich, nate, null |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | 5.14.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Neon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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| Attachments: | Size of updates: Discover v/s "$ flatpak update" | ||
We don't the information, currently. https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/2095 Tried this again today and they match except for expected conversion differences between MB and MiB (Flatpak CLI shows the sizes in MB, while Discover shows them in MiB). |
Created attachment 116013 [details] Size of updates: Discover v/s "$ flatpak update" SUMMARY Flatpak backend of Discover does not differentiate between the installation size and the update size of the Flatpak packages (installation size always shown). For example, in the attached image, the "io.atom.Atom" package update is 35.3MB, but Discover shows that the update is 133.3MB. This is most noticeable in the Flatpak Runtime updates, where Discover shows updates of more than 700MB, when sometimes the download does not exceed 30MB. This may be a problem for users who have an Internet connection with a traffic limit (mobile connections), since some users may refrain from updating their system when they see the big size of the updates in Discover, in Flatpak packages. STEPS TO REPRODUCE When there is an update of some Flatpak package, run "$ flatpak update" and compare the size of the update with the one that shows Discover. OBSERVED RESULT In the updates, Discover shows the installation size of the Flatpak packages, not the update size. The user is informed of an incorrect update download size (much bigger than the real one) EXPECTED RESULT Discover shows the real size to download in Flatpak package updates. SOFTWARE VERSIONS Discover: 5.14.2 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.51.0 Qt Version: 5.11.2 Operating System: KDE Neon 5.14, Ubuntu 18.04 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION n/a