Package: dpkg Version: 1.15.5.4 Severity: wishlist Currently, running dpkg on my system is rather slow and can take 10 seconds or something to read the database. I propose an option --readahead-db which uses readahead(2) on all database files; and would be called by APT during package retrieval or dependency solving, so that the database is already cached when dpkg is started to install packages.
-- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (350, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii coreutils 8.0-2 GNU core utilities ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 0.7.24 Advanced front-end for dpkg -- no debconf information -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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