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----- Original Message ----- > The package database stores metadata about every package ever > analyzed > with checkpkg. Only a small fraction of built and checked packages > make it into catalogs, which means that there is a boatload of > packages which are in the database, but aren't used. > > I wrote a script to find and delete unused packages: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/gar/changeset/19788 > > There were about 80k packages (defined as SVR4 .pkg files), of which > only 16.5k are actually used in catalogs (since the stable and > current > catalogs are now dropped from the database). Before garbage > collection, the compressed database dump had 815MB, and now it has > 150MB. I'm guessing that the size reduction will also have > performance > benefits. > > Maciej > _______________________________________________ > maintainers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers > .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::. > _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
