On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Guillem Jover wrote: > > With a pool it is expected that some other program will make the > > selections as to which package goes into which packagefile via the > > FileList setting. This is better because it doesn't have to scan the .debs > > to determine the architecture. > > Yes for the distribution I'll have to do that, scan for .changes files. > But the debs have to be scanned anyway to process the Overrides for > example.
If it scans a .deb to determine the architecture and determines that it is the wrong architecture then it has wasted all that work. It is a big slow down on anything that is not of trivial size. Much better to use find/etc Jason
