Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > No, I have thought of this before, it is a good idea. Shell scripts really > wouldn't do it justice.. > > There are some issues though, what exactly should be done for upgrade? > Nuke the old files and unpack the new ones? Install new ones along side? > Etc..
Probably the former. > Also, dpkg-source is not really suitable for this kind of task, it doesn't > have good enough error handling+recovery to work as well as we expect dpkg > to. On the other hand, a source unpack error is not quite as critical as a lsdo unpack error. :-) And it can be beefed up I guess. > That means a new low-level tool that is an analog to dpkg (except for > source packages) needs to be created that can maintain the list of > installed sources, and dpkg-source would be beefed up and regulated into a > role more like dpkg-deb. Hm, I was sort of seeing apt as handling the list stuff. I don't get what a seperate program like dpkg buys us. -- see shy jo
