Harald Dunkel writes ("Re: dpkg clone in perl?"):
> So either dpkg needs some cleanup, or I need some other
> code, e.g. a dpkg Perl module. Thats why I have asked.Cleanup sounds like the right idea to me. > AFAICS the buffered IO in extract.c could be replaced by > unbuffered IO, since dpkg has its own buffering scheme > (at least for dpkg 1.13.21). I would like to contribute > this to Debian, but I am not a DD yet, and there might > be many questions about the internals of dpkg, too. That buffering code wasn't written by me and I don't have a high opinion of it. IMO it should be ripped out. You could try dpkg 1.4.x and see if that works for you :-). Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
