Hi all, On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 10:44 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:36:06PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > It's a shame that dpkg-query is so slow. Cold cache (which will be > > typical), it takes something like a second to run; warm cache around .3 > > seconds. Overhead includes reading the entire status file. The above > > code runs it 5 times in all. > > > > So, it would be worth only running it once and picking out the > > appropriate filenames from its output.
> > PS, cdebconf includes a dpkg-reconfigure now and will need the same > > changes. Probably we need to make sure to communicate substantial > > changes like this with Regis at least until cdebconf takes over from > > debconf. > > cdebconf is actually ahead of debconf on this right now: it already has > the 'dpkg-query --control-path' thing (and just runs it once per > script), and it also already sets the DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_* variables. It > does need the triggers work, though. CCing Regis here. Thanks for the heads up. I was planning to do an upload of cdebconf tonight, so I think I'll be looking at the triggers stuff for dpkg-reconfigure after that. Regis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org