Hi!
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 15:12:52 -0400, Michael Vogt wrote:
Package: dpkg
Severity: wishlist
apt is currently unpacking/configuring packages by running
dpkg --unpack pkg1.deb pkg2.deb ... pkgN.deb
dpkg --configure pkg1 pkg2 ... pkgN
this can be problematic for big installations when the commandline
gets very long and exceeds _SC_ARG_MAX.
One possible solution might be to have something like --archivefiles-fd
or --arg-file argument where frontends to apt can feed data into.
If thats a direction that sounds sensible I can start working on a
patch for this.
There's already the --command-fd command, but it's disabled for now
because it still suffers from some issues. This is in dpkg's TODO
list, and I could just enable it back the first thing in 1.18.0,
targetting experimental, so that it can be tested. I think I remember
at least some of the problems with it, related to at least massive
memory usage due to the non-freeing memory allocator, and might even
have some fixes on some branch. But there might be other issues.
Thanks,
Guillem
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