[Touch-packages] [Bug 924283] Re: Package lists are fully readed if there are no changes

2014-09-29 Thread William Lee
It still does that in 14.04 LTS. I updated my package lists then did that again, but it still reads the package lists for 5-10 seconds ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which

[Touch-packages] [Bug 924283] Re: Package lists are fully readed if there are no changes

2014-09-29 Thread Julian Andres Klode
Yes that's true IIRC. And update explicitly rebuilds the cache. That's not a huge issue, unless you are sitting around running apt-get update in loops. It is not possible to rebuild only changed parts, except for /var/lib/dpkg/status changes. For making that work, a second cache is generated; we

[Touch-packages] [Bug 924283] Re: Package lists are fully readed if there are no changes

2014-09-29 Thread Sworddragon
And update explicitly rebuilds the cache. It would be really nice if we could get back the old behavior here - the cache gets only rebuilded if there are only real changes. But I have found an easier testcase to reproduce this issue: root@ubuntu:~# time apt-get clean real0m0.025s user