package rkhunter tags 472114 + upstream forwarded 472114 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1922881&group_id=155034&atid=794190 thanks
Hi François, Le samedi 22 mars 2008 à 19:35 +1300, Francois Marier a écrit : > Package: rkhunter > Version: 1.3.2-1 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > I understand that this is not strictly speaking a problem with rkhunter or > the packaging > (hence the wishlist severity). However, on my laptop, doing the property > update at the > end of each apt run is very slow. When apt-get installing small packages, it > often takes > more time to update the properties than download and install the package. > > Is there a way that we could speed this up? Either by priming the cache in a > clever way > with readahead, or by being smarter about which files to re-hash. > > Maybe it would make sense to create a "quick" property update where rkhunter > would look > at each file and if the timestamp hasn't changed just assume that the hash is > still the > same. I must say I have the same issue, and tend to disable the hashes/attributes tests on machines running Debian sid. I have forwarded your request to the upstream feature request list. Cheers, Julien
