Re: dpkg

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:10:31PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Ben Collins wrote:
> > 
> > > > IMO, about the only way to
> > > > get real speedup is for all of this data to be in a hashed database,
> > > > on disk, so all dpkg has to do is open the database and verify files.
> > > > The hash will already be avaiable. However, there are probably some
> > > > caveats to this.
> > >
> > > Well another useful optimization would be to not read the available file
> > > at all if nothing it is going to do involves the available file.
> > >
> > > I've just zeroed mine out, sigh.
> > 
> > Some of the installs change what is in the available file. However, we
> > do need to get rid of it somehow. Dselect holds us back again...
> > 
> > Wichert, any plans on how to deintegrate dselect from dpkg? Maybe a
> > dpkg-available tool that dpkg can start calling when it needs to?
> > 
> 
> What does apt do for its equivalent to the available file ? 

It has a binary cache.

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