On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 08:34:27PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Package: apt-listchanges > Version: 2.84 > Severity: wishlist > > I have a simple idea to increase the happiness of apt users that don't > own an SSD yet and suffer from fragmentation of dpkg's database. > While the user is reading the changelogs, apt-listchanges could read all > contents of /var/lib/dpkg/... which would precache all the data in VFS > cache, therefore speeding up the subsequent call of dpkg. > > This feature would be optional, of course, and could be implemented > calling "tar -c /var/lib/dpkg | wc" (side note: don't forget that GNU > tar cheats and does not read files if the output file descriptor leads > to /dev/null).
Well actually, in my experience, cat /var/lib/dpkg/*.list > /dev/null is enough, but yeah it's probably a fine feature to have :) -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O [email protected] OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
