On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 20:46, Peter Samuelson <pe...@p12n.org> wrote: > Also, what if apt wants to call one of its auxilliary binaries during > the install/upgrade? I imagine it's not implemented that way _now_, > but a Pre-Depends would make such a thing a lot safer if they want it.
In theory this could happen at the time APT implements downloading and installing packages in parallel - through to be sane it would be still in order and in working batches (= network failures anyone?). The "helper" here would be the download methods - but not only the in-built but also the external ones like apt-transport-https or -debtorrent or debdelta so these would need to get … what? Also pre-depends? Seems like method upgrades should be moved out of the parallel runs and upgraded in the first batch then to avoid really long and nasty pre-depends trees… Currently through at the time dpkg is called APT has basically no needs. Just calling dpkg from time to time and waiting until it is finished. Hooks and stuff are called before or after the upgrade process, so lets deal with it then it is a real problem and not a mental exercise… Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=nZuAeEMyNHPcNP½mnjyg72...@mail.gmail.com
