Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3
On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:19AM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:17:38AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > One things, if I've understood things correctly, is that it is not
> > possible to reliably know how they're going to be removed -- dpkg will
> > break the circle in a random place and this may or may not result in
>
> the problems occur when apt processes "long" lists of packages, and more
> specifically in the 'configure' stage.
> dpkg has only partly to do with this; the problem is in APT and the way it
> controls dpkg: due to a limited command line length, apt can only call dpkg
> with a certain number of packages on the same time.
> dpkg can handle circular dependencies fine as long as both 'ends' are fed in
> at the same time.
> but, at least the last time I checked the apt source, apt doesn't check
> for this condition when splitting the to-be-configured list and passing these
> chunks to dpkg.
Shouldn't apt be fixed rather than changing other packages, then?
Hamish
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