Re: Understanding debdelta.

2011-05-08 Thread A Mennucc
Dear Shirish and dpkg-devel, I am writing a complete debdelta documentation, see in http://debdelta.debian.net/html/ let me also mention that Ubuntu is interested in deploying debdelta as well, see in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-o-debdelta/ Il 08/05/2011 07:07, shir

new experimental debdelta feature --format=unzipped

2011-05-04 Thread A Mennucc
Dear all, I just uploaded into experimental a new version 0.42exp of debdelta ( you may find some binaries also in [3] ). This version adds an experimental feature : if you call 'debdelta-upgrade' with the option '--format=unzipped' , then in the recreated deb the data.tar part will not be compr

Re: Debdelta and Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-04-25 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi again, Il 25/04/2011 07:28, Guillem Jover ha scritto: > The data.tar does not need to be recompressed for dpkg to be able to > install it. (that is true) > But my main problem right now is that I didn't find clear > documentation of the “debdelta”

Re: Debdelta and Streaming Package Installation for dpkg/APT

2011-04-24 Thread A Mennucc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Ishan, and also in CC Michael and debian-dpkg, here is a reply to a message you sent me long ago; this message also referenced a message in debian-dpkg [1], so I am CC-ing them as well. The message, in short, was: Il 06/01/2011 14:55, Ishan Jay

advertise feature added by 465282

2008-04-14 Thread A Mennucc
hi recently, dpkg 1.14.17 introduces a feature "dpkg-dev: Set a set of compiler flags for a build" that implements what is explained in BTS 465282 . Since not everyone reads debian-devel (too much traffic), this may be uknown to many people; maybe you dpkg developers should send a mail to d-

update-menus , Re: dpkg and selinux

2004-10-21 Thread A Mennucc
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote as an example, 80% of all debian postinst (post install) packages on my computer result in the running of update-menus. you don't need to change the whole of the packages to implement the above just add a few diverts, create some specific locks , and check on e