On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 9/20/06, PM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> This latest version of fink is incredibly SLOW indexing packages.
>> This process used to take 30 seconds, now it takes over 2 minutes.
>
> That should only be the case for the initial run of "fink index".
> Subsequent indexing should be much faster. If it isn't then you may
> be missing something from your setup, like Storable
Did you mean running "fink index" (that is, indeed, much
faster) or the "updating table data" step in fink commander?
On my > 3 years old 876MHz TiBook that step is very slow
too, but I don't think it changed that much when I updated
to 0.25 just now, I think it is more a function of how many
packages are listed in fink (over 6000 now).
>> Also, cleanup now requires options, so fink commander cleanup
>> commands no longer work.
>>
> That, on the other hand, wasn't intended. This may motivate a new
> Fink Commander release.
Yup, same problem here :-) And I don't fully understand
what the --dpkg-status mode is needed for?
There seem to be some major changes in this new fink: is
there a place to find a description of them (in not too
techy terms)? I like the automatic "scanpackages" updating
after building from source, that definitely saves me time
and error on my deb server. But others may want to be
warned it also needs internet access again at that point to
finish the job...used to be you could wait until all the
downloads were done and then it would complete everything
off-line.
-- Viv
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