dpkg 0.93.74: split packages minimally supported

[Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>]

This version contains a new program, dpkg-split.

dpkg-split can be used to split a single large Debian package archive
into several pieces, and to put the pieces back together.  It is also
used automatically by the new version of dpkg in this release, so that
you can have split packages automatically reassembled during
installation.

The program doesn't yet clean out left-over files from the depot
directory where it keeps parts of files waiting to be put together.
Discussion about how and when to do this is ongoing.

There is also a floppy disk installation method available in this
version.  This is probably still rather buggy, and in order to make
good use of it you'd have to split all the packages manually
yourself.

dpkg (0.93.74) BETA; priority=LOW

  * dpkg-split implemented and installed in /usr/bin/dpkg-split.
    (NB this is not compatible with Carl Streeter's old dpkg-split script.)
  * dpkg uses dpkg-split.
  * floppy disk method available - NB this is a first attempt only.

  * hard disk method uses --merge-avail rather than --update-avail.
  * installation by default of `standard' packages removed again.
    (I don't think this is the right place to do this.)
  * update-alternatives --remove correctly deletes all slave links;
    minor cosmetic improvements.

 -- Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>  Mon, 11 Sep 1995 02:06:05 +0100

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