Re: dpkg-scanlibs

[Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 11:27:32PM +0900, Masato Taruishi wrote:
> 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
> 
> compares the timestamp of /var/lib/dlocate/dlocatedb with
> /var/lib/dpkg/status's one?

yep.

in pseduo-perl

    if (mtime of /var/lib/dpkg/dlocatedb < mtime of /var/lib/dpkg/status) {
        system("/usr/sbin/update-dlocatedb") 
	} ;
    # now carry on with whatever it is that needed dlocate -S to be
    # up-to-date.

craig

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