On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > code, which loops over readdir() in /var/lib/dpkg/info for every single > package you install. Now that's 2500+ loops * every package, when I > apt-get upgrade. Might not notice it much on this 270mhz ultrasparc, but I
You know a better optimization would be to simply read everything once and use a per-package flag indicating which files are available and which are not. Then you don't have to change the disk format. Jason
