On 22 June 2011 08:26, Miklos Vajna <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:28:34AM +1000, Russell Dickenson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I know there's another thread relating to the speed of pacman -Sy and >> it prompted me to ask a question I've been meaning to ask for a long >> time. If I do a "pacman-g2 -S" of a package which doesn't exist, the >> result on my laptop is a lot of disk activity and almost exactly 2 >> minutes later I get the response "error: could not add target >> 'freddo': not found in sync db". Of course the timing of this >> operation is dependent on a lot of factors, including the speed of my >> laptop's hard drive which is generally slower than I would like. >> Regardless I am left wondering why it takes so long to confirm that >> the package quoted doesn't exist in the database. > > Because in case it finds no such package, it tries to search in provides > and descriptions, which is slow. My patch helps there as well: > > $ time pacman-g2 -Ss foobar > > real 1m28.914s > > $ time ../src/pacman-g2/pacman-g2 --config root/etc/pacman-g2.conf -r root > -Ss foobar > > real 0m3.509s > > I plan to address Michel's comments over the weekend and provide an > updated patch to get one step closer to something that can go into the > repo.
Wow! Those results are just amazing. I look forward to a faster Frugalware. :) -- May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
