Re: dpkg, udpkg and busybox
Joey Hess wrote:
>
> Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > I just checked in some changes to udpkg which should make it generate a
> > correct status file when a program is installed, this will mean dselect
> > and other standard packaging tools wont spit the dummy.
> > I have only tested it with one program though, im sure there will some
> > more problems to sort out.
> >
> > One thing i am concered about is that i created a lot more pointers for
> > each packages in the struct, so i should check the memmory usage....
>
> Woah, woah. You added support for every field! Why? Udpkg is designed to
> be small, not complete! It's not meant to get along with dpkg.
>
> Before:
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 joey joey 10748 Dec 30 17:24 udpkg*
> After:
> -rwxrwxr-x 1 joey joey 13500 Feb 14 14:01 udpkg*
>
> That is 100% bloat as far as I'm concerned.
>
Well... putting it into busybox will bring it down to 7 or 8 kB with
full support, so it will still be smaller than an incomplete standalone
version.
Even so 2.5KB to make it compatable with the proper tools sounds like a
bargin to me.
It will be much easier to maintain if it can be used outside the
installer.
What size are you prepared to pay if any for full support, if i could
get it down to 1 KB difference would that be ok ?
Glenn
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