[BusyBox] dpkg is broken?

[Mike Voytovich]

Great, thanks for the info.  We'll look forward to testing out the
additions/fixes when you submit them.

One other very useful option for dpkg would be the "-l" switch, to list the
packages installed on the system.  If you don't have any immediate plans to
implement this yourself, we are willing to spend the time to add this
functionality.

Thanks again,
-mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn [mailto:bug1 at optushome.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 3:59 AM
To: Mike Voytovich
Cc: busybox at busybox.net
Subject: Re: [BusyBox] dpkg is broken?


On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 15:51:39 -0700
"Mike Voytovich" <mvoytovich at coactive.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've just retrieved the latest CVS today (July 10th) and I seem to be
having
> problems with the "dpkg" applet.  I built a test package, which installs
> successfully with a previous version of the busybox dpkg (retrieved
> mid-May).
> 

hmm, ive been rewritting a new version of dpkg, im just doing some cleanups
using dmalloc at the moment, i will probably have something to try in a day
or so, this new version should have lower memory usage and will be able to
remove, purge and install packages, with dependency checking... it should be
more correct than the existing bb version, but i will have to do a closer
comparision, it will be bigger unfortunately.

In the meantime i will look at the currect version, the problem is probably
due to some changes in the code that it shares with dpkg-deb, i should be
able to fix it pretty easy.



Glenn