Bug#43724: Bug #43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

2001-06-13 Thread Steve Greenland
;s being discussed -- I'm not trying to force any particular disposition, just taking my best shot at resolving dead issues. Bug #43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R Summary: A patch for dpkg to speed up disk based installs requires that version numbers be distinct, even ignori

Bug#43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

1999-10-26 Thread Julian Gilbey
> Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > > It seems that this proposal was rejected due to dpkg -iGROEB being > > superceded by apt-cdrom. Is this correct? > > I don't think so.. this was that patch that added an option to dpkg > to use filenames instead of looking inside packages, right? > > Wichert

Bug#43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

1999-10-26 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Julian Gilbey wrote: > It seems that this proposal was rejected due to dpkg -iGROEB being > superceded by apt-cdrom. Is this correct? I don't think so.. this was that patch that added an option to dpkg to use filenames instead of looking inside packages, right? Wichert. -- __

Bug#43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

1999-10-26 Thread Julian Gilbey
It seems that this proposal was rejected due to dpkg -iGROEB being superceded by apt-cdrom. Is this correct? Julian =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux

Bug#43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

1999-09-01 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 09:14:05AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Doesn't anyone else feel this is a hack? Look at how apt does it (parse a > > Packages file, and use that info to get package versions and decide what > > needs to be updated, and then look at o

Re: Bug#43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

1999-09-01 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Edward Betts wrote: > What about multi-cd support? Apt does not have any so you have to use > dpkg-multicd which uses dpkg -iGROEB (I think) to install from multiple CDs. Potato APT has complete multi-cd support Jason

Bug#43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

1999-09-01 Thread Edward Betts
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't anyone else feel this is a hack? Look at how apt does it (parse a > Packages file, and use that info to get package versions and decide what > needs to be updated, and then look at only those files) for a much better > method. > > Basically, no one in

Bug#43724: experimental patch for very much faster dpkg -R

1999-09-01 Thread Joey Hess
> > Below is a patch against Ian's CVS tree which can massively accelerate > > the `dpkg -iGROEB' call from the disk method of dselect (and > > elsewhere). > > > > It works by parsing filenames to determine whether it can skip > > particular files, instead of looking inside them. When most of the