Re: debmake & dpkg
On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Ian Jackson wrote:
> This is a very bad idea. dpkg's databases are carefully designed to
> avoid bad lossage in case of disk overflow, bad sectors, &c, and to be
> manually fixable when required. Typical database solutions do not
> have these important properties.
Perhaps we could get the best of both worlds by compilling
/var/lib/dpkg/info/* into a database....
Nicolás Lichtmaier.-
nick@feedback.com.ar
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