> > Below is a patch against Ian's CVS tree which can massively accelerate > > the `dpkg -iGROEB' call from the disk method of dselect (and > > elsewhere). > > > > It works by parsing filenames to determine whether it can skip > > particular files, instead of looking inside them. When most of the > > packages on your system are up to date, it leads to an enormous > > speedup, as instead of opening and parsing thousands of *.deb files it > > just does a bit of work on the filenames.
Doesn't anyone else feel this is a hack? Look at how apt does it (parse a Packages file, and use that info to get package versions and decide what needs to be updated, and then look at only those files) for a much better method. Basically, no one in their right mind has used the disk method of dselect in years. dpkg -iGROEB is known to fail in many ways, just ask Jason Gunthorpe. -- see shy jo
