On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> Ok, but then dpkg still isn't sped up. The idea was, that a cache database
> for dpkg's data files (available, status, *.info, etc.) would speed up
> every call to dpkg during installation, configuration and removal of
> packages. Every installation me
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>
> > But that doesn't speed up dpkg's -s, -l, -S and -L options (and all the
> > others that need to read the packages database, of course). That is what
> > this proposal is about, speeding up dpkg calls.
On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> But that doesn't speed up dpkg's -s, -l, -S and -L options (and all the
> others that need to read the packages database, of course). That is what
> this proposal is about, speeding up dpkg calls. I haven't tried apt yet,
> since dselect (with the "mou
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Doesn't apt already use a cache database? Seems the code is alreaqdy
> written, then..
But that doesn't speed up dpkg's -s, -l, -S and -L options (and all the
others that need to read the packages database, of course). That is what
this proposal is about, sp
On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> > If I am correct, this means that dpkg only needs to rebuild the database
> > from scratch if the sysadmin has edited one or more of the text files.
> > This could mean a much shorter startup time for dpkg.
>
> Doesn't apt already use a cache database? See
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
> That's why I and several other people have proposed a cache database. The
> text files will still be the authoritative source of information for dpkg.
> But after dpkg has read them and built its database in memory (as it does
> now), it can save this database to disk. The
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Anthony Towns wrote:
> [please direct followups appropriately, this digression doesn't really
> belong on -policy]
>
> On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 09:26:38PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > > "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes:
> > Anthony> (as it stands, things like
[please direct followups appropriately, this digression doesn't really
belong on -policy]
On Sun, May 31, 1998 at 09:26:38PM -0700, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
> > "Anthony" == Anthony Towns writes:
> Anthony> (as it stands, things like `dpkg --search /etc/passwd'
> Anthony> results in
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