On 22/05/12 11:20, Andrew Gregory wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2012 08:28:11 +1000 > Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The restriction of not checking the ownership of a directory is >> unnecessary given that all the package filelists contain this >> information. Remove this restriction, with the expectation that you >> might get multiple packages returned for a given directory. >> Additionally attempt to minimise the number of files getting through >> to the slow realpath call. >> >> This combines ideas from two patches that have been around for a long >> time. >> >> Original-work-by: Andrew Gregory <[email protected]> >> Original-work-by: Dan McGee <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <[email protected]> > > I actually decided to try tackling this again recently too. If > you're interested, you can see the most recent incarnation here: > http://bitbucket.org/andrewgregory/pacman/changesets/tip/directory_owner > It gets rid of a lot of the basename/dirname stuff which I think makes > it a lot easier to follow. >
I had a quick look through your patch. It is quite a change to the code so there is not anything obvious for me to grab into this one. How far would your patch be from being ready? If the answer is really soon, and Dan likes the look of your changes, then I am quite happy for "my" patch to be ignored. Allan
