Ian Jackson wrote: > 1. There will obviously be a limit to how many trigger names can be > passed in this way. If a package comes too close to this limit we may > have to consider offering a different way to pass this information, or > perhaps just truncating it. As a workaround, some distinct triggers > could be merged. > > 2. That's irrelevant. dpkg does not need to run on every > POSIX-confirming system. It only has to run on reasonable free > systems. If the command-line length limit is too severe then that is > a bug in the underlying system. > > Other possibilities for passing this information seem to include: > * writing it to a temporary file (what a palaver both for dpkg > and for the maintainer script) > * environment variables (messy and still subject to possibly small > implementation limits) > * not at all Couldn't dpkg just run the trigger muliple times (like xargs) if it came to that? -- see shy jo
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