On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:20:38PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On 20050301T122452+0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > | > > Doesn't apt usually unpack all packages first and then configure them > > in > > | > > one run, so that shouldn't matter? > > | > > > | > dpkg does the same thing > > | > > | So how does apt break it but using dpkg doesn't? > > > > apt invokes dpkg on the command line and due to maximum command line > > length it sometimes is split in an unfortunate place. > > I'll repeat what I wrote above: > > Doesn't apt usually unpack all packages first and then configure them in > one run, so that shouldn't matter?
nope. apt unpacks a block of packages (limited by the command line length when calling dpkg) and then configures only this block. if a circular dependency is split into two blocks, the configure fails. -- c u henning -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
