Re: web address in control file.

[Martin Mitchell <gevans@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE> writes:

> kullervo!root(ttyp0):~# time -p dpkg --status fileutils
> Package: fileutils
> [..]
> 
> real 55.76
> user 24.77
> sys 1.30
> 
> Well, speaking of fast machines it's not bad but... kullervo is also
> known as m68k.debian.org, quite a slow machine compared to master or va.
> Owner of slow machines would be happy to increas speed of such lookups.

Yes, dpkg is very slow on m68k. Perhaps some kind of caching mechanism like
man-db uses would help. There don't have to be any tradeoffs in dpkg
features, it would just need a little more disk space.

	Martin.


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