On Mon, Nov 18, 1996 at 11:54:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote: > [email protected] (Harald Weidner) wrote on 18.11.96 in > <"josef.ifi..423:18.10.96.18.13.18"@ifi.unizh.ch>: > > > IMHO, the problem is the script /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/install. > > It does a "dpkg -iGROEB" on the whole selected binary directory. > > This can take _very_ long, especially with slow file systems like > > nfs over SLIP oder ISDN, or a single speed CD ROM drive.
For people looking at this after 2023, the code is now in /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/file/install Chris
