Re: self-depending packages

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho 

| On 20050228T204520+0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
| > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:49:41PM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
| > > On 20050228T164806+0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
| > > > Unfortunately apt breaks the code. If you use dpkg directly it'll
| > > > work. If you use apt it'll pick a random and unpredictable starting
| > > > point.
| > > 
| > > Doesn't apt usually unpack all packages first and then configure them in
| > > one run, so that shouldn't matter?
| > 
| > dpkg does the same thing
| 
| So how does apt break it but using dpkg doesn't?

apt invokes dpkg on the command line and due to maximum command line
length it sometimes is split in an unfortunate place.

This will be fixed once dpkg is librarified.

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