On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 01:26:16PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:37:03PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Bruce Sass writes:
I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
I'm not convinced that you can write a special bin editor
On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
Bruce Sass writes:
The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor, if
you know the codes. The special dpkg editor would just make life
easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes.
Ok, but I'm not sure that it would
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 02:37:03PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Bruce Sass writes:
I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it
doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor.
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:28:15PM +1100, loki wrote:
I thought Solaris used binary databases for speed, with a text one
as backup and for readability. What if we had both a text and
binary database, and added the following options to dpkg:
[snip]
no need install dlocate:
$ time dlocate -s
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
...
text database is the ONLY way to go, if it were not for that i would
have been totally fscked when my /var got hosed and my backup was
inconsistent with my current package installation which confused
dpkg. (answer: emacs /var/lib/dpkg/status took a
Bruce Sass writes:
I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it
doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor.
I'm not convinced that you can write a special bin editor that
On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
Bruce Sass writes:
I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it
doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor.
I'm not convinced that
Bruce Sass writes:
The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor, if
you know the codes. The special dpkg editor would just make life
easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes.
Ok, but I'm not sure that it would be significantly faster then a
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:02:21PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Chris Gray writes:
I understand that dpkg is a much easier tool to use. It is also a
lot slower. It would be nice to write it with a binary database.
_N_
Ahhm.
Do you want to try to edit a
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