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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