On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Serafeim Zanikolas <s...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 11:52:49PM +0100, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 08:15:32PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >> > On 17 March 2013 19:56, Serafeim Zanikolas <s...@debian.org> wrote: >> > > On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 02:14:50PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >> > >> The data can be passed through an open fd, similar to dpkg --status-fd >> > >> argument. Then there are no issues due to filesystems global >> > >> namespace and it removes the fs as an unrequired middle-man. >> > > > [..] >> Attached the updated patches for apt and apt-listbugs, which implement >> Daniel's proposal of using an fd rather than a fifo. > > Ping? Is there anything blocking the application of this patch?
So (just for the record), after discussing this a bit at DebConf it seems like we could apply the attached patch to APT, which is hopefully fine for everyone. Best regards David Kalnischkies
0001-allow-Pre-Install-Pkgs-hooks-to-get-info-over-an-FD-.patch
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