On 20050301T144403+0000, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org> > > On 20050301T122452+0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >> 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? > > I will refrain from repeating what Tollef wrote, but read it again > anyway. Apt neither unpacks nor configures packages; it uses dpkg for > that. There is and was nothing wrong wrong with my reading comprehension; the problem was that we did not share a common set of assumptions. For me "apt unpacks" obviously means "apt tells dpkg to unpack" and "apt configures" obviously means "apt tells dpkg to configure"; it was also obvious to me that "apt configures in one run" means it calls dpkg --configure -a. My mistake was the last assumption: I have now checked source, and apt really does list the packages even in a configuration run, which indeed is a problem. Had someone corrected my false (implicit) assumption, this thread would have been a lot shorter. Alas, it wasn't: not one response I got addressed the real problem. Perhaps it'd be useful to assume that I can read and then look for ways I could have made a mistake in my mental model. Then again, I could have been more explicit in listing my assumptions. Oh well. This thread has demonstrated Wiio's law: Communication usually fails, except by accident. (http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/wiio.html) -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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