On 30/10/10 16:19, Allan McRae wrote:
On 30/10/10 16:03, Allan McRae wrote:
Whenever depends is needed from the local db, so is desc. The only
disadvantage to merging them is the additional time taken to read the
depends entries when they are not needed. As depends is in general
relatively small, the additional time taken to read it in will be
negligable. Also, merging these files will speed up local database
access due to less file seeks.
Of course this is going to need a nice post_install script for the next
major pacman release... or now for those of us using the git version
once this is pushed.
I'm testing one out now.
Here it goes:
-- start --
DBPATH=/var/lib/pacman/local
for i in $DBPATH/*; do
if [[ -f $i/depends ]]; then
cat $i/depends >> $i/desc
rm $i/depends
fi
done
-- end --
If you are going to test these patches before they are accepted to
master, I suggest you copy your local db elsewhere and change DBPATH in
that script. Then you can use pacman with --dbpath (but do not do
anything that modifies the local db...)
Allan
