hi guys,
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:17:35AM -0400, David Benjamin wrote:
> >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.
>
> Thanks! I will look at thi
On 08/31/2009 02:19 AM, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
--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.
This is true, which is why I do not think tar is a good solu
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
On 08/30/2009 09:28 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
David Benjamin (29/08/2009):
The current list-files are good for the query "given a package, what
did it install". They also have fairly fast updates. However, they
are extremely poorly suited for the query "given a file, what
package(s) installed
David Benjamin (29/08/2009):
> The current list-files are good for the query "given a package, what
> did it install". They also have fairly fast updates. However, they
> are extremely poorly suited for the query "given a file, what
> package(s) installed it" or if you need to read it all in at
>
Hi,
So, I've been having difficulties with dpkg's performance on cold disk
cache. dpkg's list files in /var/lib/dpkg/info are inefficient. Before
doing most operations, dpkg calls ensure_allinstfiles_available() which
reads in the contents of each file into a global hash table. As there
are t
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