Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread jfm
On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 17:52 Europe/Brussels, Max Horn wrote: This has at least these two problems: * We have to record the location of the matching .info file (note that it could even exist in multiple places, e.g. local/stable/unstable, and in different versions) * New .info files can

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread Max Horn
At 9:08 Uhr -0800 16.02.2003, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 08:44 AM, Max Horn wrote: At 8:09 Uhr -0500 16.02.2003, David R. Morrison wrote: I think it would be useful to have a configuration option governing the index behavior. Sometimes, I am doing a lot of editing of in

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 09:19 AM, Ben Hines wrote: No, those are not concerns. You miss the point of my suggestion. There is only one (or more if expanded by shell metacharacters) "matching info file" with my method: Perhaps it will make more sense with a full path: "fink install

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 08:52 AM, Max Horn wrote: * We have to record the location of the matching .info file (note that it could even exist in multiple places, e.g. local/stable/unstable, and in different versions) No * New .info files can't be found this way; thus you won't pi

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread Max Horn
At 16:59 Uhr +0100 16.02.2003, jfm wrote: On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 02:43 Europe/Brussels, Max Horn wrote: ... we could add a "fink index foo.info" command, which would add the specified .info file(s) to the index. This way, you could just (re)index the files you are working on, avoiding hav

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 08:44 AM, Max Horn wrote: At 8:09 Uhr -0500 16.02.2003, David R. Morrison wrote: I think it would be useful to have a configuration option governing the index behavior. Sometimes, I am doing a lot of editing of info files, and then I might want to turn the cu

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 04:44 pm, Max Horn wrote: Note that you can always enforce a full reindexing by "fink index". I don't think that enabling an auto-reindex option, then run fink, then disable it again, is easier, rather it seems to be way more complicated :-) Apparently my sc

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread Max Horn
At 8:09 Uhr -0500 16.02.2003, David R. Morrison wrote: I think it would be useful to have a configuration option governing the index behavior. Sometimes, I am doing a lot of editing of info files, and then I might want to turn the current indexing behavior on (instead of always having to type "fi

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread jfm
On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 02:43 Europe/Brussels, Max Horn wrote: ... we could add a "fink index foo.info" command, which would add the specified .info file(s) to the index. This way, you could just (re)index the files you are working on, avoiding having to do full indexing too often. Yes _

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-16 Thread David R. Morrison
I think it would be useful to have a configuration option governing the index behavior. Sometimes, I am doing a lot of editing of info files, and then I might want to turn the current indexing behavior on (instead of always having to type "fink index foo.info"). Other times, I am mainly compiling

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-15 Thread Carsten Klapp
I can confirm this, the same thing happened to me once within the last two or three days--due to a patch file which was no longer present/pertinent. No insight to offer towards a solution, sorry :( 'sudo fink index' bypassed the problem. On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 10:03 pm, Ben Hines w

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-15 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 05:43 PM, Max Horn wrote: To ease the developer's pain somewhat, we could add a "fink index foo.info" command, which would add the specified .info file(s) to the index. This way, you could just (re)index the files you are working on, avoiding having to do

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-15 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 08:43 PM, Max Horn wrote: After suffering from extremely bad fink performance on my iBook in the past couple months (despite the nice improvements recently done), I begin to wonder if maybe we should reconsider our current package DB indexing behavior. I thi

[Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

2003-02-15 Thread Max Horn
After suffering from extremely bad fink performance on my iBook in the past couple months (despite the nice improvements recently done), I begin to wonder if maybe we should reconsider our current package DB indexing behavior. The current approach is restricted in its performance by the fact t