Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Have you ever considered dpkg --contents | awk '{print $3 "\t" $6}'
> which takes but seconds and can be thus done on the fly? You can even
> exlude all the conffiles with a suitable grep -v step.
Have you ever tried this on a large package? Like the 8 mb quake-lib
package?
% time dpkg --contents quake-lib_1.06-5_all.deb |wc -l
12.78user 1.40system 0:15.77elapsed 89%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (2524major+96minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Dpkg has to seek through the entire .deb file for this command to work. Thus,
it takes 15 seconds to process it (on my P-166). This is less than ideal
when you have a lot of packages to process.
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see shy jo
