On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:28:15PM +1100, loki wrote: > I thought Solaris used binary databases for speed, with a text one > as backup and for readability. What if we had both a text and > binary database, and added the following options to dpkg: [snip] no need install dlocate: $ time dlocate -s ssh real 0m2.658s user 0m1.260s sys 0m0.070s $ my load average is 1.45 at the moment otherwise that would have been twice as fast. apt-cache show|search are also quite fast. text database is the ONLY way to go, if it were not for that i would have been totally fscked when my /var got hosed and my backup was inconsistent with my current package installation which confused dpkg. (answer: emacs /var/lib/dpkg/status took a little time to work out, but MUCH LESS then it would have taken to blow away my install and start over from scratch) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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