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Re: problem with dselect and the "dists" hierarchy



>>>>> "joost" == joost  <joost@pc47.mpn.cp.philips.com> writes:

    joost> abstract: there might be a serious problem involving
    joost> dselect and hamm's new distribution format that threatens
    joost> to make Debian 2.0 cd's unusable.

*snip*

    joost> /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/disk/setup is a shell script with
    joost> snippets of perl code incuded. IMHO it is not a bad idea to
    joost> write the whole script in perl, considering that it assumes
    joost> perl to be present anyway.

Rewriting this in Perl is probably no problem, but what exactly is
it *supposed* to do? The shell script is very hard to read. If
we can determine just what it does, I can easily rewrite it.

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