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Re: dpkg-scanlibs



At Mon, 26 Feb 2001 01:49:11 -0800,
Joey Hess wrote:

> > * Will try to use dlocate instead of dpkg -S for extra speedups
> 
> Doesn't dlotate work just like locate by caching data? If so, this could
> result in incorrect dependancies if two library packages contained the
> same file, and you had one installed yesterday when the dlotate database
> was updated, then switched to the other today for the package build.

compares the timestamp of /var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb with /var/lib/dpkg/status's
one?



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