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Re: self-depending packages



On 20050301T122452+0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> | > > 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.

I'll repeat what I wrote above:

Doesn't apt usually unpack all packages first and then configure them in
one run, so that shouldn't matter?

-- 
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer 

http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian

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