Re: standard apt/yum meta-data format
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:27:41AM +0200, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> 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
Why would you think that it should be faster for apt to read and parse the
Packages files and build a useful data structure out of them than for grep
to read them and perform a regex match on each line?
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- mdz
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