Hi,
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
can't find the reference anymore.
I could only find approx one reference for this goal [1].
Luckily, even if that doesn’t pan out,
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Some test cases (or methods for producing them) would make me very
happy. dpkg doesn’t have enough automated tests of basic functionality.
Automake provides a rudimentary test harness [2].
Given that a fair bit of dpkg is written in Perl, which
Russ Allbery wrote:
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes:
Automake provides a rudimentary test harness [2].
Given that a fair bit of dpkg is written in Perl, which means that people
are already familiar with the Perl test harness, you may want to consider
using my C TAP Harness
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 01:19:33AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
I could only find approx one reference for this goal [1].
Ah, yes, that was it, thanks! Removing Perl from the essential
set. While going to bed, I actually figured that was the reason
why I wasn't finding perl in the
On Sat, 03 Apr 2010, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi,
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
somewhere I read that a reimplementation of mksplit.pl in C was
needed in order to remove a dependency of dpkg on Perl, but I
can't find the reference anymore.
I could only find approx one reference for
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.5.6
Severity: minor
Hi,
man dpkg contains:
-r, --remove, -P, --purge package...|-a|--pending
Remove an installed package. -r or --remove remove
everything except conffiles. This may avoid having to reconfigure the
package if it is reinstalled later.
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