On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:26:16PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:37:03PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Bruce Sass writes:
> > > I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
> >
> > I'm not convinced that you can write a special b
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> > What is the effective difference between telling someone to make sure
> > the Status field reads, "install ok installed", and telling them to make
> > sure the second field after the package name reads, "111"
On 8 Sep 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Bruce" == Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Bruce> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
> >> Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> ...>
> >> > The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor,
> >> > if you know the
Bruce writes:
> What is the effective difference between telling someone to make sure the
> Status field reads, "install ok installed", and telling them to make sure
> the second field after the package name reads, "111".
"install ok inst44led" is obviously wrong and so is the fix even if you
don'
Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> What is the effective difference between telling someone to make sure
> the Status field reads, "install ok installed", and telling them to make
> sure the second field after the package name reads, "111". Sure, it is
> less transparent, but the end res
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:37:03PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Bruce Sass writes:
> > I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
> > the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it
> > doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin e
>>"Bruce" == Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bruce> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
>> Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...>
>> > The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor,
>> > if you know the codes. The "special dpkg editor" would just make
On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Bruce Sass writes:
> > The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor, if
> > you know the codes. The "special dpkg editor" would just make life
> > easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes.
>
> Ok, but I'm not sure that
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
<...>
> > The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor,
> > if you know the codes. The "special dpkg editor" would just make life
> > easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes
Bruce Sass writes:
> The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor, if
> you know the codes. The "special dpkg editor" would just make life
> easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes.
Ok, but I'm not sure that it would be significantly faster then a
well-d
Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> > Bruce Sass writes:
> > > I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
> > > the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it
> > > doesn't matter if it is via a text edi
On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> Bruce Sass writes:
> > I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
> > the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it
> > doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor.
>
> I'm not convince
Bruce Sass writes:
> I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
> the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it
> doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor.
I'm not convinced that you can write a special bin editor that
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
<...>
> text database is the ONLY way to go, if it were not for that i would
> have been totally fscked when my /var got hosed and my backup was
> inconsistent with my current package installation which confused
> dpkg. (answer: emacs /var/lib/dpkg/status to
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:28:15PM +1100, loki wrote:
> I thought Solaris used binary databases for speed, with a text one
> as backup and for readability. What if we had both a text and
> binary database, and added the following options to dpkg:
[snip]
no need install dlocate:
$ time dlocate
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:02:21PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Chris Gray writes:
>> I understand that dpkg is a much easier tool to use. It is also a
>> lot slower. It would be nice to write it with a binary database.
>
> _N_
> Ahhm.
> Do you want to try to edi
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