Joseph Carter wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 07:54:00PM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote: > > personally the plain text database is one of dpkg's greatest assets. > > its a royal pain to repair a binary database when it gets fscked. and > > yes i have already been saved from a total reinstall through the > > ability to fix dpkg's broken database with a text editor. > > > > if your talking about a different database then nevermind. > > Berkeley DB to text and back is pretty easy. > > Also, I was speaking of binary indices which are even easier to regenerate > if corrupted.
When I talked about binaries, people flamed me ruthlessly and without legitimate reasons. Hope your comments make them grok the point. Having bulky stupid slow text files all around your system is no guarantee of "recoverability" or "reliability", whatever. Such feature comes from smart coding, not that things are text. The ideal system would be that doesn't need your "manual" intervention to keep things running. Example: checkpointing of package information which we _don't_ have. Some random postinstall file gets fscked and the system stalls, then you gotta fix it by hand. Ah, and if a large portion of the database is gone, there is nothing your stupid hand can do, anyway. -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
