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--- Begin Message ---Package: dpkg Version: 1.10.20 Severity: normal For low memory (or embedded systems), dpkg should not load the available packages into memory. For the stable distribution, this takes up nearly 11MB and made it difficult to upgrade my system -- upgrading libc6 terminated due to memory constrains. I was able to install my packages by commenting out all sources... My embedded system is a PowerPC with 32MB of ram using a NFS root for development. Thanks, -Paul -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.3 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii dselect 1.10.20 a user tool to manage Debian packa ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 1.17.11 Hi! On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 16:13:36 -0500, Paul Miller wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.10.20 > Severity: normal > For low memory (or embedded systems), dpkg should not load the available > packages into memory. For the stable distribution, this takes up nearly > 11MB and made it difficult to upgrade my system -- upgrading libc6 > terminated due to memory constrains. I was able to install my packages > by commenting out all sources... > > My embedded system is a PowerPC with 32MB of ram using a NFS root for > development. I don't think the memory requirements are in any effect actual problems at this point in time. But this got fixed back in dpkg 1.17.11, but the bug was not closed then, I've added the closure to the changelog locally now. Here's the relevant entry: ,--- dpkg (1.17.11) unstable; urgency=low [ Guillem Jover ] … * Do not write to the available file when unpacking binary packages. This information is not useful as dpkg has never recorded the archive path, so it has never been truly available for re-installation anyway. Closes: #241768 … -- Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Sat, 09 Aug 2014 17:16:27 +0200 `--- There were previous versions to make dpkg-query too not load the available database by default. Thanks, Guillem
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