I recently hacked up a quick-n-dirty helper for selectively
mirroring or updating RPMs. The algorithm I wanted was
- collect the list available from the remote server;
- collect the list installed locally;
- for those packages available from the remote server, where the
same-name package is
On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 at 10:39:53 +1100, Andrew Savige wrote:
In case anyone is unaware of (-ugene's status in world golf, you can
find out by typing in Eugene van der Pijll at www.googlism.com.
I just typed in 'Eugene' to check.
eugene is the fastest and most pleasant
eugene is about the size
Ian Phillipps sprak:
I just typed in 'Eugene' to check.
eugene is the fastest and most pleasant
eugene is about the size of a dog
eugene is devastated
But, most relevantly,
eugene is right
In my experience, Eugene (and Ton) are always right.
I just noticed that Yitzchak's email
Bennett == Bennett Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bennett When I got around to writing the thing, here's what came out. Sort
Bennett of an elaborated and extended Schwartzian Transform. The naughty
Bennett bits can be found quickly by searching for map and sort. I
Bennett think the maps with big
Randal writes:
= If you need only the best (or worst) of the list, a sort is probably
= overkill. Just do a high-water mark scan, keeping the best
= candidate as you compare it with each other candidate.
For fixed (but arbitrarily large) K, it is possible to find
the K smallest or K largest
Sorting 1000 items involves a _lot_ more than 1000
comparisons - which is really all you need. If you insist
on your approach you should memoize vercmp() or use the
orcish maneuver in your sort() callback. (Memoizing will
accelerate it across all of your script, but the orcish
maneuvre will
* A. Pagaltzis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-02-12 07:35]:
and -1 == vercmp($2,$3, @{$installed{$_}});
That is, of course,
and -1 == vercmp($2,$3, @{$installed{$1}});
--
Regards,
Aristotle
Andrew Savige [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Winter Christian wrote:
# String to array:
@lines=$x=~/[^\n]/g;
This one splits into array of chars not array of lines.
Shame on me, seems like I was unable to
read what the question was.
-Christian
