On Sun, 16 Jun 2002 16:17:35 -0400 "Matt Zimmerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 02:36:27PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > * Optionally unpack files in-place > > Dangerous, but would provide significant space savings for upgrades. > > Might it be better to remove (but not purge) and then install the > > new version? Doing this frequently could provoke lurking bugs in > > maintainer scripts. > > > > Well, the amount of files extracted will be smaller, due to your first > > request. And I would hope that you always have some storage space > > left over. However, We'll take it into consideration. > > I'm thinking that it would make a big difference for certain data that > the user really does want. For example, a GIS data package used with a > GPS might include several large files, and there might not be enough > disk space to store two copies of all of them. > > I think busybox dpkg may already do something along these lines, but I > don't know what its limitations are (Glenn?). > Im not sure what you mean by "unpack files in-place", do you mean extracting files directly to the root filessytem rather than extracting to a tmp directory and moving them ? Glenn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
