Instead of creating a subshell for each of these checks (of which there
are many), pass in an expected value and make the check_* function do
the comparison for us, returning 0 (match), 1, (mismatch), or 127 (not
found).
For a measureable benefit: I tested this on a fairly simple package
(perl-ter
I use rankmirrors and I notice on timeouts pacman automatically
switches. Today, though most packages downloaded quickly from the
mirror just selected by rankmirrors, one or two went very very slow. I
guess differing routes by different package requests.
Would it be easy to add a ^S (Ctrl-S) to te
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> On a side note should pacman be using /proc/mounts for Checkspace
> rather than /etc/mtab.
1) We don't reference a filename at all in the code, we use
"standardized" functions to access this
2) On your Arch machine, /etc/mtab is a symlink t
/etc/mtab is symlinked to /proc/self/mount
└─╼ ls -l /etc/mtab
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 1 19:41 /etc/mtab -> /proc/self/mounts
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:49:48PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> I use rankmirrors and I notice on timeouts pacman automatically
> switches. Today, though most pa
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> Would it be easy to add a ^S (Ctrl-S) to tell pacman to stop and retry
> at the next mirror.
The mirrors may not necessarily be in sync, the next mirror could have
a completely different version of the package. Could cause
difficulties...
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 08:49:48PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> I use rankmirrors and I notice on timeouts pacman automatically
> switches. Today, though most packages downloaded quickly from the
> mirror just selected by rankmirrors, one or two went very very slow. I
> guess differing routes by
