On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:51:57PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > > On my system with 1200 packages (far below the average popcon > > > > submitter), > > > > traditional popcon take 2s. Once patched with the attached patch to > > > > use dpkg -L, > > > > it take 30s. Slowing down 15 times popcon is not acceptable. > > > > > > You can invoke "dpkg -L" less often by giving multiple packages as > > > parameters. Each set of files will be separated by an empty line. > > > > Good, is that behaviour documented somewhere ? > > man dpkg-query shows that multiple parameters are allowed, it does not > explain that an empty line is the separator though.
Well, surely we cannot rely on such undocumented behaviour. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110420210851.GE13243@yellowpig
