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
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