On 20 November 2010 09:48, AJ ONeal <coola...@gmail.com> wrote: > My assumption is that the only time the results of `opkg list` > will change is after `opkg update`. > > Is that correct? > > > If so, why not have `opkg update` generate the output > which `opkg list` produces such that `opkg list` is instantaneous? > > AJ ONeal > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel >
On my 300Mhz mipsel: r...@quokka:~# ls -l /var/lib/opkg/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3558222 Nov 21 22:53 base -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 145482 Nov 21 22:53 no-arch -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66288 Nov 21 22:53 quokka r...@quokka:~# time opkg list > /dev/null real 0m 2.78s user 0m 2.50s sys 0m 0.26s Ok, so its not the quickest. Opkg has to read in the package info and parse it each time. What is your use case for needing to call 'opkg list' so frequently that this becomes painful? -Graham _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list Openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
