Re: dpkg GIT repos does not build [patch]

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:36:41AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 24 May 2010, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Dear Dpkg developers, > > > > There is a small typo in dpkg GIT repository that prevent it to build. > > Please see the attached patch. > > Thanks applied. I did not notice i

[PATCH] libdpkg: use mmap if available to parse package info files

Use mmap instead of slurping entire "Packages" or "available" files into memory. This should reduce memory pressure on low-memory machines. Reported-by: Bill Allombert Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder --- Bill Allombert wrote: > Maybe this is because I reran autoreconf > before compiling or beca

Re: [PATCH dpkg 0/3] supporting seemless package renames (dpkg --configure --ignore-not-installed)

Hello (again), to get a bit of traffic again in the discussion: I finally came around to implement disappear-support in APT [0] and it is already on his way for testers into the archive as 0.7.26~exp5. It is pretty basic and i still don't like the fact that we don't know about the disappear in a

disappearing packages, seamless renames

David Kalnischkies wrote: > The following packages disappeared from your system as > all files have been overwritten by other packages: > apt dpkg > Note: This is done automatic and on purpose by dpkg. Nice. :) Nitpicks: The following packages have disappeared from your system because no ot

Re: [PATCH] libdpkg: use mmap if available to parse package info files

Hi! On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:36:16 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Use mmap instead of slurping entire "Packages" or "available" files > into memory. This should reduce memory pressure on low-memory > machines. > > Reported-by: Bill Allombert > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder > --- > Bill Allom

Re: l10n: Humble patch for typos and update-po request

Hi! On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 18:32:36 +0200, Omar Campagne wrote: > diff -rupN man/dpkg.1 mannew//dpkg.1 > -additional options set on the command line, and thru this file descriptor, > +additional options set on the command line, and through this file descriptor, Small nitpick. Thru is a correct si

Re: [PATCH] libdpkg: use mmap if available to parse package info files

Guillem Jover wrote: > But even then I think > I'd just prefer switching the code to use chunked I/O instead, which > should be as reliable, and use consistently way less memory at any > given time. Hmm, that basically means reverting commit 864e230e, since stdio uses chunked I/O internally. It

Re: l10n: Humble patch for typos and update-po request

Guillem Jover writes: > Hi! > On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 18:32:36 +0200, Omar Campagne wrote: >> diff -rupN man/dpkg.1 mannew//dpkg.1 >> -additional options set on the command line, and thru this file descriptor, >> +additional options set on the command line, and through this file >> descriptor,