Re: apt: pin: how to debug?
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Taral wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:22:49AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> > [1] I am not really happy with this response because apt-get still
> > tries to download the release files, and squid can't cache a file that
> > doesn't exist. So each time I do a new apt-get upgrade, I have to wait
> > for squid to re-determine that the relevant files still do not exist.
> > Ok for low latency Internet connections, but mine doesn't fall into
> > that category.
>
> apt makes all sorts of assumptions. Ever try running it (+dpkg) on a
> 486SL/33 with 8MB of RAM? It's painful.
dpkg in unstable currently reads /var/lib/dpkg/status(and available) one char
at a time. Fixed in cvs.
dpkg in unstable currently has inverted memory detection logic, and actually
performs worse with <= 24m ram. Somewhat fixed in unstable.
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