On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, David Benjamin wrote: > From what I can tell, dpkg's primary operations to the list-files do > not correspond to "given a package, what did it install"? The > current implementation will often read in everything, which *.list > is bad at. The point of reading them all in seems to often be for > findnamenode() to work. In which case, what we actually want is the > "given a file, what package(s) installed it" query. *.list are not > very good at that either.
--install will also install a new .list file and updating a single big file containing the full list of files would not be very efficient when done multiple times in a single apt-get run. I also remember some experimental work of Sean Finney who put a cache in a sqlite db. You might be interested to look up in Google and/or in the BTS if you can find out this old patch. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
