Hello, I am trying a new run with a ramdisk right now. But it doesn't look much faster :-(
The most time is spent in each aptitude call while doing > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Writing extended state information... Done before and after each run. I haven't timed it exactly, but it seems like 3 seconds for an aptitude call which actually doesn't download anything. And yes, this machine IS slow, it's a low-cost Pentium DualCore Box. I guess the main problem here is our packages list, it was created by manually installing a master system and taking the output from 'dpkg --get-selections'. This means every dependency package is included explicitly in the package list. So for the 1.500 packages which the system contains, fai-mirror now does 1.500 aptitude calls, most of them do not download anything because the package has already been downloaded as a dependency before. Perhaps you have an idea how to do this better than manually seeking through the list and try to find out the really needed packages? Thanks, Andreas
