I just copypasted the line and the apt-get update took ~7 seconds longer than expected. If I get any corruption or any magical problems I will report back
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Harald Sitter <[email protected]> wrote: > https://trello.com/c/W1ZdDudj > > to get some preliminary data it would be very lovely if everyone who's > interested could create an update hook that should be relatively safe > to use: > > cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90xapian > APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success { "if [ -x > /usr/sbin/update-apt-xapian-index ]; then update-apt-xapian-index -u; > fi" } > > this will make sure that the search index used by qapt and friends is > updated whenever apt-get update finished successfully. Simply check > the last couple of lines of your update output to see what apt-xapian > has to say. > > I am particularly looking for any cases where the updater would report > database corruption or you think that it takes too long or causes too > much disk access. Generally speaking the updates are conducted > incrementally so they should be relatively fast. Assuming apt-xapian > works as well as I believe the hook will only slow apt-get update down > a bit (<10 seconds on most systems I'd say). > > example output: > .... > Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net utopic/main i386 Packages > Reading .desktop files from /usr/share/app-install/desktop/: done. > Reading Xapian index: done. > Updating Xapian index: done. > Reading package lists... Done > > In case you wondered about the command.... the final hook command I > would actually imagine to set appropriate IO niceness and fork so that > it doesn't block apt-get update at all and doesn't otherwise interfere > with system usage but for this test I'd like it to be as prominent as > possible. > > Also, I doubt this epic will land before 15.04 because ideally it'd be > done globally for all of ubuntu if at all possible. > > HS > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >
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