On Saturday 03 July 2004 03.15, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The problem reported in this thread was a system with stable, testing > and unstable in sources.list. Which I really want to keep because I have packages from all three installed. Juggling around sources.list is not what I want. Downloading the packages file could be faster, but IIRC rsyncing the Packages file or distributing diffs etc. etc. was discussed many times already, and it's not what I was speaking about, as you know. The 'Reading Package Lists...' step takes 22s on the system in question, which I think is awfully slow on a K6-333 with 128M RAM. Of course, it's far from unuseable, but I think when 'grep ^Package: *_Packages' takes only 3s, reading the Package lists in apt and storing them in some index should be doable a bit faster, especially since apparently the dependency tree is not built at this time - it takes a further 12s at apt-get upgrade time (which probably is reasonable with that many packages.) Again: I don't have that 486/20 with 36M RAM anymore, where this was a real pain, so it's perfectly usable for me. I was judst commenting in this thread because switching to an XML based format would (but I'm guessing) perhaps not really make things run faster, and I feel it's slow enough with the current file format as it is. cheers -- vbi -- Beware of the FUD - know your enemies. This week * Patent Law, and how it is currently abused. * http://fortytwo.ch/
Attachment:
pgpGyeB6iH3l8.pgp
Description: signature