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Re: reading dpkg source



On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Oohara Yuuma wrote:

> * a package doesn't have more than 10 Conflicts:/Replaces: pairs

Where do you see this?  Conflicts/replaces are parsed exactly like all other
dependency fields.

> 3) I wonder how dpkg is ported to a non-32-bit architecture.  md5sum
>    (which comes with dpkg) assumes unsigned 32bit "word".  The
>    configure scripts defines UWORD32 as unsigned long or unsigned int,
>    but complains if neither of them is 32 bit.

well, considering that dpkg runs on several 64 bit platforms, it obviously
works.

ps: I'm a dpkg developer



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