Re: New dselect method
Andy Mortimer (andy.mortimer@poboxes.com) wrote:
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: o Logging of each install run.
great!
: o Does NOT use dpkg -iGROEB, but instead parses the status and
: available files. Speedups can be dramatic.
and slowdown can even be very dramatic. please make sure that
this portion is _really_ effective (flex/bison, compiled).
dpkg-ftp currently uses a similar aproach and on an m68k
(somewhat like an 40MHz i486) it is unbelievable slow!
it takes more than a cuple of minutes before download
is started... :-(
jjm
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