Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a dpkg expert, but AFAIK modifying directly the dpkg databases > (yes, almost everything under var/lib/dpkg are dpkg databases) is a > Wrong Thing (TM) In the current implementation those databases are > ASCII files, but that may change (and surely _will_ change) in the > future, so relying in that format will cause compatibility problems. > The right way to solve that issue is by adding an(other) option to > dpkg.
Um... I don't like the idea of making dpkg itself yet more complicated. I think it's reasonable to supply an independent tool which serves this purpose. [I think it's reasonable to do this for every instance where dpkg must run while dpkg is already running.] -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
