]] Goswin von Brederlow | PS: How much does backup+restore of /var/lib/dpkg/info give you and | how much does the ordering give you after that? I tested a backup + restore on my laptop with ext4, and dpkg -S went from ~30s to ~20s, so it's a significant improvement, but still slow. (Sorry, I no longer have the exact timings here.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are