Re: [d-i] busybox dpkg status?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:30:23 -0400
"Joey Hess" <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> What is the current status of the busybox (u)dpkg implementation? Is it
> a workable replacment for udpkg now -- will it do everything udpkg does,
> and will it drop in as a replacement? How much space, if any, will it
> save?
>
busybox dpkg adds about 16kB to a busybox with ar, gunzip and untar builtin.
Strengths of busybox dpkg are
- It generates a correct status file (not sure if we fixed this in udpkg)
- It checks dependencies (not sure if udpkg does this)
- It doesnt run any shell commands.
- Uses hashtables for speed and memory efficiency
Stefan Sourcek (from coactive) has been doing a lot of bugtesting, so im
pretty confident with it.
That said we have been reworking big chunks of it away from bb CVS so as not
to effect its stability, which can be seen at
p.d.o/~bug1/busybox/dpkg.<date>.c
The new code still has some work to do with dependency checking, but will use
less memory.
Glenn
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