Hi! On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 15:12:52 -0400, Michael Vogt wrote: > Package: dpkg > Severity: wishlist
> apt is currently unpacking/configuring packages by running > dpkg --unpack pkg1.deb pkg2.deb ... pkgN.deb > dpkg --configure pkg1 pkg2 ... pkgN > > this can be problematic for big installations when the commandline > gets very long and exceeds _SC_ARG_MAX. > > One possible solution might be to have something like "--archivefiles-fd" > or "--arg-file" argument where frontends to apt can feed data into. > > If thats a direction that sounds sensible I can start working on a > patch for this. There's already the --command-fd command, but it's disabled for now because it still suffers from some issues. This is in dpkg's TODO list, and I could just enable it back the first thing in 1.18.0, targetting experimental, so that it can be tested. I think I remember at least some of the problems with it, related to at least massive memory usage due to the non-freeing memory allocator, and might even have some fixes on some branch. But there might be other issues. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
