On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > > Erm - why? All our directory trees have index files which give all the > > necessary information the 'other' package management tools (ie APT) use > > this file and never invoke dpkg with a recursion option. > Then they will suffer from mirror lag (or have to scan all the files > individually at some other point).
And risk getting one of those famous problems that results from incomplete index information. You know I have a caching dpkg-scanpackages around here someplace which IMHO is a more elegent solution than encoding knowledge of file names into dpkg. Jason
