On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 01:49:59PM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote: > Unfortunatly, that is because of the way dselect runs dpkg (dpkg -iGROBE), > which then goes through the directorys and checks every package.
I did a quick hack on dpkg last week to speed up -iGROEB. Basically, the patch does the following: When dpkg runs `find -name "*.deb"', it checks whether every file found looks like 'name_version*.deb'. If all files match that pattern, my patched dpkg assumes that all the filenames are valid and contain the real package-name. It then skips those packages that aren't marked for installation without even reading their control-file (this causes a major speedup because on an average system, only a minority of all available packages are installed). Orignially, I also wanted to read the package's version from the filename, but that doesn't work because the epoch is missing. My patch is definitely not as foolproof as the current method, but I think it's good enough. You can have a look my completely unofficial and experimental version at http://meteosat.e-technik.uni-ulm.de/~mbuck/dpkg/ . There's a .deb-package for libc5, the diff for dpkg 1.4.0.8 and a dpkg-binary for libc6 (not .deb-package, sorry). I'd like to know what people think about it before trying to get the patch into the standard dpkg. Thanks, Martin -- /* Martin Buck E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] */ /* Student of electrical engineering WWW: http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_mbuck1/ */ /* University of Ulm, Germany Snail-Mail: Paukengasse 2, 89077 Ulm, Germany */ #include <disclaimer.h> /* PGP Key available MIME-Mail welcome */ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
