Danek Duvall wrote: > > Okay. I have no insight into how the current code would perform if this > were done a whole lot, over a slow link, etc. Note, though, that the data > locally isn't a cache of everything that's on the server, it's a cache only > of the packages you have installed.
Hm, now I see where this thread comes from.. I didn't realize that. Supporting a local cache of all available package data would be very useful. Having to access the pkg server(s) every time is not efficient for either side. An example might show it well. The following are local operations, very fast, no network access required and no load on pkg servers. % apt-cache search php5 pear extension php-pear - PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository php4-pear - PHP Extension and Application Repository (transitional package) % apt-cache show php-pear Package: php-pear Priority: optional Section: web Installed-Size: 2188 Maintainer: Debian PHP Maintainers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Source: php5 Version: 5.2.0-8+etch5~pu1 Replaces: php4-pear (<< 4:4.4.0-0) Depends: php5-cli | php4-cli, php5-common (>= 5.2.0-8+etch5~pu1) Recommends: gnupg Suggests: php5-dev | php4-dev Filename: pool/main/p/php5/php-pear_5.2.0-8+etch5~pu1_all.deb Size: 306894 MD5sum: 691c61c729548a19cecc04a730334af6 SHA1: 046d8a8bc448d1fbf4adb5938121296a39f3cdc0 SHA256: bdee5de17e9e683360502df90f297d0817b21bdec5d421461e08efd2df228727 Description: PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository This package contains the base PEAR classes for PHP, as well as the PEAR installer. Many PEAR classes are already packaged for Debian, and can be easily identified by names beginning with "php-", such as php-db and php-auth. Note: to build and install precompiled PECL extensions, you will need one of the php development packages installed. . PHP5 is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly. Tag: devel::lang:php, implemented-in::php, role::shared-lib -- Jyri J. Virkki - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
