On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:10:31PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > > > > > IMO, about the only way to > > > > get real speedup is for all of this data to be in a hashed database, > > > > on disk, so all dpkg has to do is open the database and verify files. > > > > The hash will already be avaiable. However, there are probably some > > > > caveats to this. > > > > > > Well another useful optimization would be to not read the available file > > > at all if nothing it is going to do involves the available file. > > > > > > I've just zeroed mine out, sigh. > > > > Some of the installs change what is in the available file. However, we > > do need to get rid of it somehow. Dselect holds us back again... > > > > Wichert, any plans on how to deintegrate dselect from dpkg? Maybe a > > dpkg-available tool that dpkg can start calling when it needs to? > > > > What does apt do for its equivalent to the available file ?
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